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FOOD-SAFETY (With picture)
Collective efforts stressed to ensure safe food
RAJSHAHI, June 17, 2019 (BSS) – Speakers at a meeting laid emphasis on
concerted efforts among all government and non-government organizations for
ensuring food safety and hygiene.
All sorts of unhygienic and unsafe foods are injurious to public health,
they made the observation at the meeting on “Food hygiene and food safety”.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) and Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA) jointly organized the meeting at the mayor’s city bhaban office here
today.
Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and its Chief Health Officer Dr AFM Anjuman
Ara Begum addressed the meeting on behalf of the city corporation while
Adviser Ali Imam Majumder and its technical expert Kanako Tanigaki,
Consultants Atsumi Koyema and Mana Ishigaki and Junior Consultant Washek
Billah took part in the meeting on behalf of JICA.
Liton said fight against food adulteration has intensified after the
government established Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) on February 2,
2015.
He stressed the need for creating mass awareness among all levels of
people to check food adulteration.
BSS/AH/ARS/1904 hrs