Sub-standard foods harm kids’ health

Kishoreganj Correspondent :
Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI) has disapproved foods harmful for kids health in the kitchen markets across the country.
Meanwhile large quantities of unapproved foods have flooded the markets, which must be checked, civil societies said. Different types of crackers, chips, chocolates, ice creams, biscuits, cakes, pastries, Ice-lilies and colourful food items are selling there. Most of the BSTI unapproved products are of substandard and low quality of foods and raw materials.
Besides, the most shopkeepers are selling low quality of foods ignoring the country’s rule and law.
Kishorganj, CAB executive President and Bangladesh Mohila Parishad in Kishoreganj president advocate Maya Bhowmick said , such foods seriously injure children’s digestive capacity, stomach, brain and make them malnourished, merit less and incompetent gradually.
Stomachache and Anorexia nervosa may be found in those children who repeatedly and constantly consume such foods. As a result, they used to show reluctant to take regular meals in house and become weak physically and mentally day by day,
When contacted to Deputy Director (DD) in Shaheed Syed Nazrul Islam Medical College Hospital (SNIMCH) dr. Mujibur Rahman told The New Nation that “BSTI unapproved foods may be made with sub standard materials and destructive colors may be used in making foods.”In case of constantly consuming such foods, children may suffer from different critical disease including cancer,” the DD dr. Mujibur warned. The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) in Kishoreganj District Officer Md. Ashraful told The New Nation, “We have very limited manpower to check enormous case of such food items.”