The Government said in the Rajya Sabha that it had withdrawn the Indian Standard Institute(ISI) licence from erring units of eight mineral and bottle water manufacturers for non-compliance of current norms. Replying to a question on the issue, the Minister for Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Sharad Yadav, clarified that the ISI mark was withdrawn from only those units/factories that were found wanting. "The premises where the microbiologist or scientist were absent or where the conditions were not hygienic, were sealed after raids," he said. The Minister said the Bureau of Indian Standard,"which was high credibility", convened a seminar of scientists and experts after an NGO broke the news about high pesticide residue in bottled water, " and the experts assured us that the bottled water was consumable."