Chattogram Bureau :
Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin urged the hotel and restaurant owners of the Port City to ensure the food safely abiding by the rules.
“Our aim is not to fine hotels and restaurants, rather we want to ensure safe and clean environment at the eateries,” he said. He told this at the view exchanging meeting held with the owners of hotels, restaurant owners at a city’s posh convention hall on Sunday as Chief Guest.
The meeting so arranged by the city corporation to aware the owners and top management of the city’s hotel and restaurants against selling of date expired, rotten and adulterated food items to the consumers.
City Mayor in the meeting called upon the hotels owners to take care of their cooking foods as like as homemade on without using any adulterated food ingredients. He also asked them to avoid the cooked oil and low quality vegetable oil or pump oil to avoid the penalty of mobile court.
Among others, executive magistrates of district administration and City Corporation, officials of National Consumers Rights Preservation Directorate, BSTI representatives, health officer of CCC, CAB officials and leaders of the Hotels Restaurants Owners’ Association were present on the occasion, CCC sources said.
Ensuring safe food is recognised as a primary concern for the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh with a view to plummeting the burden of food-borne diseases on public health. It has been observed by the World Food Programme that notwithstanding significant economic development in Bangladesh, approximately a quarter of the inhabitants is incapable to avail safe and nutritious food.
When in a country, available food fails to meet safe and nutritional requirement of the given population, there prevails food insecurity.
Food adulteration has reached to an alarming level in Bangladesh. The suffering of the consumers in Bangladesh due to food contamination has made their life agonized and hence there is a crying need in Bangladesh for regulatory efforts to control this unethical practice.
Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin urged the hotel and restaurant owners of the Port City to ensure the food safely abiding by the rules.
“Our aim is not to fine hotels and restaurants, rather we want to ensure safe and clean environment at the eateries,” he said. He told this at the view exchanging meeting held with the owners of hotels, restaurant owners at a city’s posh convention hall on Sunday as Chief Guest.
The meeting so arranged by the city corporation to aware the owners and top management of the city’s hotel and restaurants against selling of date expired, rotten and adulterated food items to the consumers.
City Mayor in the meeting called upon the hotels owners to take care of their cooking foods as like as homemade on without using any adulterated food ingredients. He also asked them to avoid the cooked oil and low quality vegetable oil or pump oil to avoid the penalty of mobile court.
Among others, executive magistrates of district administration and City Corporation, officials of National Consumers Rights Preservation Directorate, BSTI representatives, health officer of CCC, CAB officials and leaders of the Hotels Restaurants Owners’ Association were present on the occasion, CCC sources said.
Ensuring safe food is recognised as a primary concern for the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh with a view to plummeting the burden of food-borne diseases on public health. It has been observed by the World Food Programme that notwithstanding significant economic development in Bangladesh, approximately a quarter of the inhabitants is incapable to avail safe and nutritious food.
When in a country, available food fails to meet safe and nutritional requirement of the given population, there prevails food insecurity.
Food adulteration has reached to an alarming level in Bangladesh. The suffering of the consumers in Bangladesh due to food contamination has made their life agonized and hence there is a crying need in Bangladesh for regulatory efforts to control this unethical practice.
