Contaminated iftar items
During Ramadan, lots of iftar items are sold everywhere and the way these foods are handled contaminates the foods and very often causes illness to the people eating them. In many roadside stalls and restaurants, employees are regularly seen serving foods to the customers with bare hands. They are seen touching the door, furniture, jugs, money, dirty cleaning towels and even scratching their bodies and then handling food items with the same dirty hands.
Food servers need to be trained on hygiene. The authorities concerned should made it mandatory for employees in hotels, restaurants and roadside stalls to wash their hands properly and use gloves and suitable utensils like spatulas, forks etc. for handing and serving food items in order to avoid food-borne diseases.
Mohammad Rukanuddin
Assistant Professor of English,
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology,
Dhaka
