Most icecream factories careless about hygiene rules
Thursday, 5 July 2007
Our Correspondent
BRAHMANBARIA, July 4: Few ice-cream manufacturers in the district follow hygiene rules. The sub-standard ice-cream produced by the factories is posing health hazards to the consumers particularly the children.
According to a source some ice-cream factories were set up in unhygienic environment to reap high profit without caring about public health.
About 150 ice-cream factories are now operating in the district. Children are the main consumers of this inferior quality ice-cream. During the sizzling heat of the current season a huge amount of ice-cream is produced and sold everywhere from remote villages to towns. These low quality ice-cream is making people specially children come down with various intestinal ailments.
It is alleged that in order to lower the production cost these ice-cream factories use cheap ingredients like date expired powdered milk, molasses, saccharine, coconut, dust of biscuit and bread, and harmful colouring agents. Most of the factories do not have water purifying equipment. They use water from available sources like pond and canals.
BRAHMANBARIA, July 4: Few ice-cream manufacturers in the district follow hygiene rules. The sub-standard ice-cream produced by the factories is posing health hazards to the consumers particularly the children.
According to a source some ice-cream factories were set up in unhygienic environment to reap high profit without caring about public health.
About 150 ice-cream factories are now operating in the district. Children are the main consumers of this inferior quality ice-cream. During the sizzling heat of the current season a huge amount of ice-cream is produced and sold everywhere from remote villages to towns. These low quality ice-cream is making people specially children come down with various intestinal ailments.
It is alleged that in order to lower the production cost these ice-cream factories use cheap ingredients like date expired powdered milk, molasses, saccharine, coconut, dust of biscuit and bread, and harmful colouring agents. Most of the factories do not have water purifying equipment. They use water from available sources like pond and canals.