National Food Safety day was observed all over the country in a bid to prevent food adulteration and ensure safe food for all. The President and Prime Minister extended their support for the cause through issuing messages on the occasion.
Currently, each and every person in the country is suffering from insecurity regarding food safety. Food adulteration is a common incidence and food is prepared and manufactured in unhygienic conditions by many vendors.
The matter does not only extend to processed or prepared food, but produce such as fruits and vegetables as well as meat, fish and milk have proven to contain harmful additives. These additives pose both long and short term health risks for consumers, and some are causing deadly diseases such as cancer and other debilitating diseases.
Food adulteration is a common incidence
and food is prepared and manufactured
in unhygienic conditions by many vendors
Consumers all over the country have called for stricter punishment for those who are responsible for food adulteration and for unhygienic practices in the food industry. Harsher penalties are needed to deter people from similar practices in the future.
Moreover, the government must set up testing laboratories all over the country to ensure that the quality of food is not compromised. Awareness building among the consumers is also needed so that they are able to make better decisions for themselves in the future.
Food safety should be made a top priority for the authorities concerned. For too long, the health and wellbeing of general people have been compromised by unscrupulous business operators. They are using harmful chemicals in food in order to turn maximum profit. They are doing so with no regard for
human life.
These kinds of practices must be stopped once and for all. Exemplary punishment for the culprits is needed so that in the future no one would dare to adulterate food.
