The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) will take more time to introduce its new mobile app service for providing information to the customers on the safe foods available in the city eateries, official sources said.
The authority has a few more tasks to complete for starting the app service, the sources added.
Consumers will be able to pick their choices from a particular restaurant through the mobile app.
"It will take some time more for us to provide information to the consumers on safe foods sold by the restaurants and eateries through the new mobile app," BFSA chairman Mohammad Mahfuzul Hoque told the FE.
Earlier in January, the BFSA introduced a new grading system (certificates) for the city's restaurants and eateries to ensure safe and quality foods for customers.
The BFSA set 53 compliance standards under 10 heads including necessary proof/certification documents, individual hygiene, approved source, related contamination, cleanliness, processing procedures and temperature control, machinery, chemical substance, pests and insects control, drainage and pipe management.
It issued grading certificates (A+ Green, A- Blue, B- Yellow and C-Orange) to 57 restaurants in the city's Motijheel, Dilkusha, Paltan and Secretariat areas.
Restaurants with a score of 90 and above belongs to Grade 'A+', those with 80 points and above fall within Grade 'A', those having scores between 55 and 79 come into the Grade 'B' and those having 45 to 54 points are considered at Grade 'C'.
There are around 200 restaurants and eateries in the above-mentioned areas.
The BFSA has a plan to expand the existing grading system to other eateries in the city.
But no restaurants in other parts of the city have received grading certificates since its introduction in January.
Relating to providing grading certificates to other eateries in the city, the chairman of BFSA said "We are working on it. The restaurants in other areas of the city will come under grading system soon".
The government has formed the BFSA on February 2, 2015 through Food Safety Act 2013.
The core objectives of the organisation are to ensure people's access to safe food through appropriate application of scientific processes and state-of-the-art technology.
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