Experts yesterday urged the food industry to team up with the government in ensuring better nutrients as indicators suggested the country still lagged behind the nutrition standard despite impressive development in health sector.
“The intake of eggs and chickens are still very low among the low income people,” Professor Dr Nazma Shaheen of Nutrition and Food Science Institute of the Dhaka University said as experts joined a roundtable of Bangladesh chapter of World’s Poultry Science Association-Bangladesh Branch (WPSA-BB) here.
Referring to a study Shaheen said the per capita intake of eggs and chickens was 26 grams less than one needs to develop a standard health.
Her comments came as documents provided at the roundtable suggested nearly 38.7 percent children aged between 0 to 59 months in the country are short in size, 35.1 per cent are under-weight and 16.3 per cent are thin.
WPSA-BB organized the roundtable titled “Safe Food and Nutrition for Future Generation: Role of poultry industry in Bangladesh” to drum up a campaign as they are set to host a three-day 9th International Poultry Show and Seminar-2015 from February 19 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
