Dishonest traders selling low-quality food, Iftar items in B'baria
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Our Correspondent
BRAHMANBARIA, Sept 26: Some dishonest traders are selling low quality food and Iftar items at snack bars, departmental stores and restaurants from the very first day of Ramadan, sources said.
Most of the factories are allegedly producing various food items using low quality ingredients.
The restaurants in the town are also serving unhygienic foods to the customers. Sub-standard food items, not fit for public consumption, are put on display at different restaurants.
Restaurants are being displayed sub-standard Iftar items like halim, piaju, beguni, potato chop, nihari, kachchi biriani, bhuna khichuri, tikka, kabab, chhola boot, nan, parata, ruti, puri, vegetables roll, singara and varieties of juice.
These foods are prepared in unhygienic conditions and displayed at unclean spaces in restaurants and hotels.
As a result, taking those adulterated Iftar items people are stricken with diarrhoea, dysentery, and other intestinal diseases, sources said.
Besides, there are more than 21 bakery and 19 sweetmeat houses in the town. Most of the owners of the bakery and sweetmeat houses produce low quality food items violating the rules of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI).
The worst quality of flour, eggs, baking powder, dalda and vegetables are being used in making food items like bread, cake, biscuits, vegetables rolls, pastries, dry cakes, chanachur, sandwiches etc.
Adulteration of food items can be checked to a great extent, if the BSTI becomes really sincere and conduct regular inspection to ensure proper quality of food items, produced in these restaurants, bakeries and sweetmeat shops, sources added.
BRAHMANBARIA, Sept 26: Some dishonest traders are selling low quality food and Iftar items at snack bars, departmental stores and restaurants from the very first day of Ramadan, sources said.
Most of the factories are allegedly producing various food items using low quality ingredients.
The restaurants in the town are also serving unhygienic foods to the customers. Sub-standard food items, not fit for public consumption, are put on display at different restaurants.
Restaurants are being displayed sub-standard Iftar items like halim, piaju, beguni, potato chop, nihari, kachchi biriani, bhuna khichuri, tikka, kabab, chhola boot, nan, parata, ruti, puri, vegetables roll, singara and varieties of juice.
These foods are prepared in unhygienic conditions and displayed at unclean spaces in restaurants and hotels.
As a result, taking those adulterated Iftar items people are stricken with diarrhoea, dysentery, and other intestinal diseases, sources said.
Besides, there are more than 21 bakery and 19 sweetmeat houses in the town. Most of the owners of the bakery and sweetmeat houses produce low quality food items violating the rules of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI).
The worst quality of flour, eggs, baking powder, dalda and vegetables are being used in making food items like bread, cake, biscuits, vegetables rolls, pastries, dry cakes, chanachur, sandwiches etc.
Adulteration of food items can be checked to a great extent, if the BSTI becomes really sincere and conduct regular inspection to ensure proper quality of food items, produced in these restaurants, bakeries and sweetmeat shops, sources added.