Green activists demanded a regulatory commission to control quality of food items and drinks and urged the government to set up public complaint centres about adulterated food.
They put forth the demands at a leaflet distribution programme in the city’s in the city’s Mohammadpur, Karwan Bazar, New Market, Azimpur, Palashi and Chowkbazar areas on Friday.
Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan organised the programme demanding safe, healthy and adulteration-colour-fly-dust free foods, said a BAPA press release.
They said selling of adulterated food items increased in the Ramadan month. The organisation’s leaflets urged people not to take open foods, say no to junk or fast foods, and avoid coloured food items and drinks, plastic plates and newspaper for carrying foods.
Adulterated foods caused different diseases like cancer, gastric, cholera, jaundice, liver cirrhosis, heart, kidney and skin diseases, they added.
They also demanded strengthening of drives against adulterated food and drinks and implementing the Consumer Rights Protection Act, 2009.
The programme was attended by BAPA safe food, drinks and consumers right programme committee’s member secretary Zahedur Rahman, joint secretary Mihir Biswas, executive member Mahbub Hossain and Amit Ranjan Dey, national council member Hasan Yousuf and former general secretary Mohidul Haque Khan, Green Voice co-coordinator Humayun Kabir Sumon, Peace secretary general Ifma Hossian and Citizen Rights Movement general secretary Tushar Rehman and others.
-With New Age input
