Speakers at a seminar on Thursday said that formalin was a very volatile substance, due to which formalin had no role in preserving and ripening fruits.聽
The seminar titled the Role of Nutrition and Good Family Practices in Ensuring Safe Food, organised by Bangladesh Food Safety Authority, held at the BFSA Training Room.
The BFSA chairman Zakaria was present as chief guest while member of the BFSA Mohammad Mostafa delivered welcome speech at the seminar, which was presided over by the BFSA member Abu Noor Md Shamsuzzaman.
Dhaka University Institute of Nutrition and Food Science professor Khaleda Islam presented keynote at the seminar.
Ensuring food safety requires inter-agency coordination. In the management of food business, many organisations of the government are involved in one way or another, said Zakaria.
He also said that they had to gradually ensure a safe food environment in the country through everyone鈥檚 cooperation.
Khaleda Islam discussed the importance of safe food, the relationship of safe food with sustainable development, food hazards, foodborne diseases, the current status of safe food in the country, the consequences of unsafe food consumption, food wastage, food waste management, confusion about formalin, the use of trans fatty acids and their harmful effects.
