Concerned agencies must slap penalty on restaurants who sell adulterated food

Only four out of 100 restaurants in Bangladesh met the food quality standards, according to a 2018 survey by the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority. These four restaurants received a green sticker, which represents that the place meets the standards set by the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority. During the survey, the authorities introduced the process of giving coloured stickers — red, yellow, and green — to identify the restaurants’ quality of food. The yellow sticker represents the restaurants that have some issues that could be improved with a little effort and the red ones point out that the restaurants have poor quality food.
A total of 51 restaurants among 100 received red stickers, while 45 got yellow stickers, which projects a dreadful situation in the food quality of Bangladeshi restaurants. This was the first attempt to examine the food quality situation in Bangladeshi restaurants on a smaller scale, which showed 51% of the food stalls are of low quality. In the next four years, the Food Safety Authority was able to put stickers on only 150 restaurants across the country. Even so, their experience was quite bad, as they did not find even 10% of food stores that serve quality foods.
There are a total of 11 institutions to look at various aspects of different restaurants in Bangladesh; however, the quality of food seems to be low. There are frequent reports of raids and fines for substandard food in various restaurants in Dhaka; there are also reports of hotels being shut down over it.
Usually, the quality of restaurant food is worse than homemade food. On top of that, if that food is eaten regularly, people will become sick. The Food Safety Authority has no control over five-star hotels in Bangladesh or those that claim international standards. The consumers must take their own responsibility to improve food quality, while the government should slap punishment for those who sell adulterated food.