Mobile courts and food adulteration

The mobile courts to check food adulteration are not found to be effective. This is creating opportunities for the unscrupulous people to adulterate food items. The food served on the table looks attractive, and we enjoy it without knowing what harm we are doing to our own self.  The mobile courts undertake drives occasionally and penalise the restaurants which sell stale foods and mix harmful chemicals in the food items. But there is no provision of regular monitoring. Even many famous and expensive eateries in the capital have very poor standard of sanitation.  The developed countries have a restaurant rating system according to their quality and standard. Stars are popular yardstick to rate hotels, so the customers can understand they are eating where. The ratings are given by the public health agencies and rating level depends on the sanitation of an establishment.  In our country we have no such system. We also need to set up a rating system and all restaurants have to display the ratings prominently in the interest of their customers.                                      

Mohammed Sohel Hara

Shahjadpur, Dhaka