Drive
Against Food Adulteration
Hasan
Mahmud, Dhaka, 05 April: A whole variety of adulterated food are getting
caught by mobile courts across the country. The mobile courts are actively
operating their inspections and punishing almost all the hotel managers for
using unsafe food ingredients and for keeping their kitchen unhygienic. The
mobile courts have also caught the restaurant people red handed while using in
food chemicals and artificial colors, which are usually used in dying cloths.
The BSTI
(Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute) experts said in an exclusive
interview "Some dishonest and unscrupulous businessmen and hotel owners
are not maintaining the rules of BSTI and continue to sell foods unfit for
human consumption." A professor of Food and Nutrition Department of Dhaka
University said, "Substandard and unhygienic food stuffs are being sold in
most of the hotels and restaurants indiscriminately."
As a result of
eating stale and unsafe food, people are suffering from serious diseases
including diarrhea and dysentery round the year." Most of the consumers
opine that BSTI should be more active, law enforcing agencies should be more
dynamic, and media should come forward to create awareness among the people.
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