The New Nation - Internet Edition

Food safety is an alarming issue in Bangladesh. It is a direct threat to human health and most important concern for Government terms of ensuring the security of public health. In recent times several drives conducted by law enforcement agencies and active coverage by media, has brought to light the seriousness of this issue beyond ones belief. The use of various industrial color, preservatives, additives, indescriment use of pesticides, antibiotics etc, says a press release."

Above findings have come out from a day long seminar on "Meeting International standards for Food & Drug, A challenge for Bangladesh……LC/MS/Approach" holding at seminar room of IFST of BCSIR on Sunday.

Secretary of Fisheries & Live Stock S. Ataur Rahman and Secretary of Science & Technology S.M. Wahid-uzzaman were the chief guests at the seminar and said, "BCSIR needs to ensure the research activities which are more relevant to protect chemical pollution in food and drug through the modern technologies."

The seminar was presided over by the Chairman of BCSIR Prof. Dr. Choudhury Mahmood Hasan. He 'said that "The people especially related to food export are coordially invited to BCSIR for getting international standards in exporting food item by support of expert scientists and modern technologies of BCSIRH.

Markus Mickel and Uwe Vollkopf representatives of' applied Biosystem of Germany were the technical person of LCIMS machine. They conducted the benifets of the machine and operating systems to the audiences.