Staff Reporter :
A new survey on food safety found that hot puffed rice mostly known as ‘Jhalmuri’, and velpuri, the popular food items for children in school yards bear germs of typhoid disease.
National Food Safety Laboratory (NFSL) conducted the survey. The NFSL collected puffed rice, velpuri, Fuchka and chutney from near to 46 schools in the capital city including famous schools in last March and April, said Professor Shahneela Ferdousy, the chief of the NFSL. She said the food items tested in the NFSL’s laboratory.
The research found most of those food items have salmolina, artificial colours, est, coliform, micotoxin and e-colai which is serious harmful for human health.
The salmolina is the germ of typhoid disease. The other harmful stuffs are creating serious risk for human health.
They also bear diarrhoea and other diseases liable for illness of stomach and urinary tract.
“The reports of the children food items collected near to city’s schools are really horrible matter. The primary results of taking those foods would be stomach diseases. But if those stuffs absorb in their bloods it must create serious health risks. The natural physical increasing of those children would be obstructed,” said Dr. Professor ABM Abdullah of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
He said prevent is the best weapon to combat with this. The parents should stop their children to take those foods.
Besides, Professor ABM Faruk, teacher of Medicine Technology of Dhaka Univeristy said, “The children could infect with diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice and typhoid because of the germs have been found from those foods.”
One of the researchers said, they collected the items from the shops near to 46 schools and colleges from 46 police station jurisdictions in the city. It included renounced school and colleges also.
“Most of those foods were very low standard,” he said.
When contacted, Mosharraf Hossain, the Principal of City International School and College at Gandaria said, “The test report of children foods are very anxious. We are serious concern about the children health. The administration should take strict move to keep away the sellers of those foods from the schools and residential areas.”
He said also, “Frequently we drive away those shopkeepers from the schools, but they then sell their items near the way to school for days and then comeback near to school.”
Some parents of the school children also express their anxiety over the test reports of the children food items. They also want administrations steps to stop those shops of harmful foods.
A new survey on food safety found that hot puffed rice mostly known as ‘Jhalmuri’, and velpuri, the popular food items for children in school yards bear germs of typhoid disease.
National Food Safety Laboratory (NFSL) conducted the survey. The NFSL collected puffed rice, velpuri, Fuchka and chutney from near to 46 schools in the capital city including famous schools in last March and April, said Professor Shahneela Ferdousy, the chief of the NFSL. She said the food items tested in the NFSL’s laboratory.
The research found most of those food items have salmolina, artificial colours, est, coliform, micotoxin and e-colai which is serious harmful for human health.
The salmolina is the germ of typhoid disease. The other harmful stuffs are creating serious risk for human health.
They also bear diarrhoea and other diseases liable for illness of stomach and urinary tract.
“The reports of the children food items collected near to city’s schools are really horrible matter. The primary results of taking those foods would be stomach diseases. But if those stuffs absorb in their bloods it must create serious health risks. The natural physical increasing of those children would be obstructed,” said Dr. Professor ABM Abdullah of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
He said prevent is the best weapon to combat with this. The parents should stop their children to take those foods.
Besides, Professor ABM Faruk, teacher of Medicine Technology of Dhaka Univeristy said, “The children could infect with diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice and typhoid because of the germs have been found from those foods.”
One of the researchers said, they collected the items from the shops near to 46 schools and colleges from 46 police station jurisdictions in the city. It included renounced school and colleges also.
“Most of those foods were very low standard,” he said.
When contacted, Mosharraf Hossain, the Principal of City International School and College at Gandaria said, “The test report of children foods are very anxious. We are serious concern about the children health. The administration should take strict move to keep away the sellers of those foods from the schools and residential areas.”
He said also, “Frequently we drive away those shopkeepers from the schools, but they then sell their items near the way to school for days and then comeback near to school.”
Some parents of the school children also express their anxiety over the test reports of the children food items. They also want administrations steps to stop those shops of harmful foods.
