Plea to shut mills making poultry feeds

Country's poultry industry leaders at a meeting Thursday urged the government to shut all the mills that are involved in producing and marketing poultry feeds with toxic wastes of tanneries.
Expressing their deep concern over the marketing of such feeds, the industry leaders said these are harmful for human health and can cause many deadly diseases like kidney failure, cancer and leaver diseases.
"So the government should immediately take a move to shut down all these mills for the sake of the greater interest of the nation," General Secretary of Feed Industry Association of Bangladesh (FIBAB) Fazle Rahim Khan Sahariar said in a press release.
The industry leaders said the government had once shut the mills for the same type of activities but later the millers continued producing such feeds due to some unknown reasons which is not at all acceptable to people.
They, however, also thanked members of the mobile court that fined two of such factories Wednesday for their illegal activities.
According to the press release a mobile court Wednesday shut down one of such mills and fined it Tk 200,000.
The industry leaders said some 20 to 25 factories of the area are creating concern for 160 million people of the country.
FIAB, Breeders Association of Bangladesh and Poultry Related National Co-ordination Committee leaders were present at the meeting on the issue where they urged the government to take immediate action in this connection, the press release added.