A seminar on 'Safe Food' was held in Rangpur today to mark National Food Safety Day 2025. Photo: BSS

 
RANGPUR, Feb 2, 2025 (BSS) - Officials and experts at a seminar here today 
emphasized the need to ensure safe food and nutrition for all citizens to 
build a healthy and talented nation and achieve the sustainable development 
goals.
 
They viewed this at the seminar on "Safe Food" organised by Bangladesh Food 
Safety Authority (BFSA) in association with the district administration at 
the Deputy Commissioner's conference room marking the National Food Safety 
Day-2025.
 
Additional District Magistrate Md Habibul Hasan Rumi attended the seminar as 
the chief guest while Additional Superintendent of Police Md Joynal Abedin 
and Deputy Civil Surgeon Dr Md Ruhul Amin were present as special guests on 
the occasion.
 
District Food Safety Officer Md Lokman Hossain delivered the welcome address 
in the event narrating the importance of ensuring safe food for all people 
and different steps taken by the government towards the directions. 
 
The Deputy Civil Surgeon presented the keynote speech on safe food in the 
seminar. 
 
The speakers put emphasis on ensuring strict enforcement of the "Safe Food 
Act 2013" and Consumers' Right Protection Act, 2009 to ensure rights of 
consumers to safe food free from adulteration, poisoning and contamination.
 
They especially stressed on improving public health indexes by ensuring 
availability of safe food and eliminating marketing of unsafe food to save 
people from cancer, kidney diseases and disability.
 
They also suggested establishing modern technology-based food management 
systems to ensure production, marketing and consumption of safer food.
 
The chief guest said that people can stay healthy if they consume pollution-
free food, pure water and fresh air. Preventing food pollution is a difficult 
task. It is not possible to prevent food pollution by enforcing laws alone. 
 
"Public awareness is needed to prevent food pollution," he said, adding that 
people should come out of the habit of adulterating food and maintain 
cleanliness while preparing food.
 
Consumers are becoming more aware of their rights to getting safe and pure 
food and already started reaping enormous benefits from enforcement of the 
related acts towards the direction.
 
He urged both traders and common consumers to become aware of severe 
consequences of marketing and consumption of adulterated and unsafe food.
 
The district level officials, NGO executives, representatives of food 
producing companies, enterprises and journalists attended the seminar, among 
others.