RAJSHAHI, Aug 1, 2018 (BSS) – Speakers at a discussion here stressed the need for ensuring safe feed and resisting high-powered antibiotics use to get best quality of poultry meat.
“Using unsafe feed and overrated antibiotic in poultry feed is harmful to public health. So, time has come to look into the matter with utmost emphasis,” they said.
The observations came at a meeting at Paba Upazila office’s conference hall of Department of Livestock Services (DLS) in the district on Tuesday.
Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) organized the meeting in association with UKaid and British Council. An Issue-based project on “Food Safety Governance in Poultry Sector in Bangladesh” supported it.
Chaired by CAB District unit Secretary Golam Mostofa Mamun, the discussion was addressed, among others, by District Livestock Officer Dr Zulfikar Akhter Hossain, Veterinary Surgeon Dr Khandaker Sagar Ahmed, District Poultry
Association Secretary Enamul Haque, CAB Upazila President Kazi Nazmul Islam, Field Coordinator Amor Decosta and Field Officer Mohidul Hassan.
The discussants urged the government to allow local companies to produce poultry vaccines and arrange training on safe food for the farmers as well as the concerned officials.
Dr Hossain said the lion’s share of chicken meat and eggs are being produced by the poultry industry which has also created job opportunities all over the country as well.