Food safety in Bangladesh faces a serious threat from heavy metal contamination, according to recent studies, with one of the country’s most widely consumed vegetables, the eggplant, containing potentially cancer-causing amounts of lead, nickel and cadmium. Researchers attribute this to excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by farmers, as well
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Food safety: More than what our eyes see and tongues taste
The proverb – let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food – has faded into oblivion from our local perspective, but not so from international context. Whether or not our responsible authorities take the food safety issue into serious consideration, countries where Bangladesh’s food items are
BFSA observes food safety week
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has organized a Safe Food Awareness Week from April 16 -21 through an initiative to ensure safe Iftar for all, said a press release Saturday. As a part of the program’s initiative, hygiene products, leaflets, pamphlets, caps, gloves as well as various safe food guidelines were