Supreme Court's chamber judge has cleared the way for Akij's Farm Fresh milk and Pran Dairy's PRAN Milk to produce and market pasteurised milk.
Justice Md Nuruzzamanstayed for five weeks parts of the High Court order that directed Akij Food and Beverage Ltd and Pran Dairy Ltd to stop production, distribution and sale of pasteurised milk for five weeks.
The chamber judge passed the order after hearing two separate petitions filed by the companies seeking a stay on those parts of the HC order.

The ban came a day after the chamber judge on Monday (Jul 30) also lifted the HC's freeze order for eight weeks in favour of state-owned the Bangladesh Milk Producers Cooperative Union Ltd, which markets Milk Vita).
On Sunday (Jul 28), the HC ordered a five-week freeze on the production, distribution, sale, and consumption of pasteurized milk of 14 companies, including popular brands like Milk Vita, Aarong and Pran due to the presence of harmful level of lead and antibiotics in them.
11 more companies moved the court
The 11 other companies, which face the ban on the sale of their pasteurised milk bands, have also moved to chamber judge against the HC order.
The court may hear their appeal on Wednesday (Jul 31), said Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who will move to the court on behalf of the 11 companies.
11 companies, which challenge the HC ban are Aftab Milk and Milk Producer Ltd (Aftab Milk), American Dairy Limited (MOO), Baro Awlia Dairy Milk and Foods Ltd (Dairy Fresh), BRAC Dairy and Food Project (Aarong Dairy), Danish Dairy Farm Ltd (Ayran) Ichhamoti Dairy and Food Products (PURA), Igloo Dairy Limited (Igloo), Uttar Bango Dairy (Ultra), Purbo Bangla Dairy Food Industries (Arwa), and Tania Dairy and Food Products (Safe).
The HC court issued the ban as four separate lab reports on pasteurized milk of the 14 companies in the market showed the presence of harmful substances for the human body.
On Jul 23, the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) submitted reports of three laboratories — Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), and the Feed and Food Safety Laboratory of the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute.
On Jul 14, the same bench had directed the BSTI to test pasteurized milk at the four aforementioned laboratories and submit their reports separately on Jul 23.
The labs were ordered to test for the total bacterial count, coliform, staphylococcus-sp, acidity, formalin, detergent, and antibiotics in the milk samples.
The HC on Jul 14 also wanted to know what steps the BSTI had taken following the two reports prepared by a group of Dhaka University researchers.
In those reports, the researchers led by the former director of Biomedical Research Centre Prof ABM Faroque said they found antibiotics, detergent, coliform bacteria, and other hazardous matter in pasteurized milk products sold in the market.
In a press release issued on Jul 13, the Biomedical Research Centre said they had found antibiotics in dairy products in their latest research. The centre had published its first report on pasteurized milk on June 25.
On Mar 17, 2018, several media outlets published articles based on the iccdr,b report that stated 75 percent of pasteurized milk was not safe. The report came to the High Court's attention and the court ordered a writ to be filed on the issue.
Later, Supreme Court lawyer Tanveer Ahmed filed the writ petition.