Department of Nutrition and Food Engineering (NFE) of Daffodil International University (DIU) organized ‘NFE Career Day-2019’ with the slogan of ‘Food Safety from Farm to Fork’ on Saturday.
Monowar Ahmed, secretary, Economic Relation Division, Ministry of Finance inaugurated the programme at 71 Milonayoton of the university as the chief guest while Rebaka Sharmin, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs manager of Nestle Bangladesh, Agnes Charles Kihamia, Nutrition specialist of UNICEF and Abu Bakr Siddique, nutrition officer of UNICEF were present as the special guests. Presided over by Professor Dr S M Mahbub Ul Haque Majumder, pro Vice Chancellor (VC) of DIU, the programme was also addressed by Professor Dr Ahmad Ismail Mustafa, dean, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Professor Dr Engineer A K M Fazlul Hoque, registrar, Dr Amir Ahmed, associate head, department of NFE of DIU. Beside this Professor Dr Md Bellal Hossain, head of the department of NFE presented a keynote presentation titled ‘Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance’ in the programme.
While addressing as the chief guest Monowar Ahmed said, “Half of our total population is women and most of them are suffering from malnutrition. Basically, those women who live in remote areas are suffering the most. They give birth of malnutrition suffered babies. So it is a very big barrier to build a healthy nation.”
“Graduates of food and nutrition sector should play a vital role to overcome this situation”, he added.
Monowar Ahmed also said that the government has passed the food safety act-2013 and the government also declared recently that a nutrition officer will be appointed in every government hospital. So, there is no doubt that government is very sincere about food and nutrition of the people. Beside government, non-government organizations should also be sincere about this issue. He thanked DIU for arranging this kind of programme.
Rebaka Sharmin said that getting safe food is a right for every people. But, most of the foods that we get in restaurant and road side hotels are not hygienic. Government and mass people should be more conscious about taking hygienic foods.
Agnes Charles Kihamia expressed her hope saying that there is a big challenge to deal the malnutrition problem. In this country, a huge number of pregnant women suffer in malnutrition. Students of NFE would play an effective role to prevent this problem.
