Drive Against
Food Adulteration
Mabrur Atiqi, Dhaka, 04 November: 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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