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DISCUSSION-FOOD-SAFETY (with picture)
Ensuring safe feed to get hygienic poultry meat stressed
RAJSHAHI, Aug 1, 2018 (BSS) – Speakers at a discussion here stressed the
need for ensuring safe feed and resisting high-powered antibiotics use to get
best quality of poultry meat.
“Using unsafe feed and overrated antibiotic in poultry feed is harmful to
public health. So, time has come to look into the matter with utmost
emphasis,” they said.
The observations came at a meeting at Paba Upazila office’s conference hall
of Department of Livestock Services (DLS) in the district on Tuesday.
Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) organized the meeting in
association with UKaid and British Council. An Issue-based project on “Food
Safety Governance in Poultry Sector in Bangladesh” supported it.
Chaired by CAB District unit Secretary Golam Mostofa Mamun, the discussion
was addressed, among others, by District Livestock Officer Dr Zulfikar Akhter
Hossain, Veterinary Surgeon Dr Khandaker Sagar Ahmed, District Poultry
Association Secretary Enamul Haque, CAB Upazila President Kazi Nazmul Islam,
Field Coordinator Amor Decosta and Field Officer Mohidul Hassan.
The discussants urged the government to allow local companies to produce
poultry vaccines and arrange training on safe food for the farmers as well as
the concerned officials.
Dr Hossain said the lion’s share of chicken meat and eggs are being
produced by the poultry industry which has also created job opportunities all
over the country as well.
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