National Safe Food Day is being celebrated across the country on Sunday (February 2) with the theme of 'food be safe, healthy people'. On the occasion of February 2 of each year, the Safe Food Authority organizes various programs nationwide.
It is reported that for the first time in the country, Safe Food Day was celebrated in the country. That year, February 2 was declared as National Safe Food Day as part of making people aware of safe food.
The main goal of celebrating National Safe Food Day is to ensure safe food to protect people's lives and health. The main aim of this day is to inform the people of Bangladesh Safe Food Authority (BFSA) and increase public awareness at all levels regarding the production, import, processing, storage, supply and sale of safe food to the public.
Nutritionists believe that transfat is a toxic food ingredient in transfat that increases the risk of various infectious diseases including heart disease, hypertension. Bangladesh Safe Food Authority has issued the regulations to set the maximum limit of transfat in all fats, oil and food to ensure transfat -free food. They emphasized on reducing the risk of transfative heart disease by rapid and effective implementation of the regulations.
Private research firm Pragya has said that marketing is prohibited without the enrichment of edible vitamin 'A' according to the law. But most of the drums are not vitamin 'A' in the open edible oil. Frequent use of plastic drums can cause edible oil toxic. Moreover, the open edible oil of the drum has the opportunity to mix adulteration. As a result, the open edible oil marketing of the drum is acting as a major barrier to the implementation of Vitamin 'A' Enrichment Act, 20 in the edible oil.
According to the National Micronutrient Survey 20-12, in the country, 6-7% of children in the country and 5-7-year-old women (excluding pregnant and dairyists) suffer from vitamin 'A' deficit.
According to a study by ICDDR, B, 5 percent of the total edible oil in the market is marketed in drums, of which 5 percent of Vitamin A is not rich and does not have the right amount of vitamin 'A' in 5 percent. Only 5 percent of the drum opened oil has been found at the minimum level of vitamin 'A' prescribed in the law. The source of oil supply cannot be identified as any label and source identification information is not added to these drums. As a result, they cannot be identified if anyone commits a crime.
ABM Zubair, executive director of the research and advocacy organization Pragya (knowledge for progress), said, “It is the responsibility of the government to reach the consumer as a secure food product.” Open oil marketing should be stopped immediately and make everyone aware of its loss.