Rangpur Correspondent: Officials and experts at a seminar in Rangpur emphasized the need to ensure safe food and nutrition for all citizens to build a healthy and talented nation and achieve the sustainable development goals.
 
They viewed this at the seminar on "Safe Food" organised by Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) in association with the district administration at the Deputy Commissioner's conference room marking the National Food Safety Day-2025.
 
Additional District Magistrate Md Habibul Hasan Rumi attended the seminar as the chief guest while Additional Superintendent of Police Md Joynal Abedin and Deputy Civil Surgeon Dr Md Ruhul Amin were present as special guests on the occasion.
 
District Food Safety Officer Md Lokman Hossain delivered the welcome address in the event narrating the importance of ensuring safe food for all people and different steps taken by the government towards the directions.
 
The Deputy Civil Surgeon presented the keynote speech on safe food in the seminar.
 
The speakers put emphasis on ensuring strict enforcement of the "Safe Food Act 2013" and Consumers' Right Protection Act, 2009 to ensure rights of consumers to safe food free from adulteration, poisoning and contamination.
 
They especially stressed on improving public health indexes by ensuring availability of safe food and eliminating marketing of unsafe food to save people from cancer, kidney diseases and disability.
 
They also suggested establishing modern technology-based food management systems to ensure production, marketing and consumption of safer food.
 
The chief guest said that people can stay healthy if they consume pollution- free food, pure water and fresh air. Preventing food pollution is a difficult task. It is not possible to prevent food pollution by enforcing laws alone.
 
"Public awareness is needed to prevent food pollution," he said, adding that people should come out of the habit of adulterating food and maintain cleanliness while preparing food.
 
Consumers are becoming more aware of their rights to getting safe and pure food and already started reaping enormous benefits from enforcement of the related acts towards the direction.
 
He urged both traders and common consumers to become aware of severe consequences of marketing and consumption of adulterated and unsafe food.
 
The district level officials, NGO executives, representatives of food producing companies, enterprises and journalists attended the seminar, among others.

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