Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said Wednesday
Denmark and Bangladesh today signed an agreement to collaborate on food safety and sustainable food production
5,000-7,000 chickens die on the way to the capital and end up in eateries, claims the state minister for industries
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has started issuing health certificates to facilitate export of food products from the country.
From village to town, printed and used paper is widely used in Bangladesh to serve food, especially street food. But the real question is how safe it is for our health. The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has also warned about using printed paper and polythene for serving oily and warm food, but the implementation of the decision is not properly regulated.
At least 30 people including nine judges fell sick yesterday (April 21, 2022) due to food poisoning after taking iftar at a restaurant in Pabna on Wednesday (April 20, 2022).
The majority of the ready-to-consume snacks and beverages like fizzy drinks, chips and fried chicken contain substances harmful for health and are responsible for non-communicable diseases, found local researchers.
According to a new World Health Organisation /United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (WHO/UNICEF) report, more than half of parents and pregnant women (51%) have received formula milk marketing, much of which violates international standards on infant feeding practices.
A man killed his wife over a family feud at Kadampur Umradagi village of Ranishankoil upazila in Thakurgaon yesterday.
About 60 million people in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh face food insecurity, and do not consume the minimal daily caloric intake required for a healthy life, according to the World Food Programme.
Street food, which is very popular to the people living in urban areas like Dhaka due to its cheap price and taste, is harmful to human
A mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) in Chittagong city yesterday fined two oil
A woman died after drinking poisonous juice, offered by a doping gang member, in a running train, Meghna Express, in Laksham on
Substandard, fake and even banned pesticides are making their way into the market mainly because of lax monitoring, posing a grave threat to safe food production and public health, experts say.
A mob beats seven suspected robbers to death when they were looting a shop in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj. Their identities could not be known immediately.
A cattle trader, who was among the 30 people who fell unconscious after eating breakfast at a restaurant in Rajshahi, died yesterday.
Mobile courts backed by Rapid Action Battalion yesterday jailed 12 persons for storing and manufacturing adulterated food items in Dhaka and Narayanganj.
Police on Monday arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman in Bishwambharpur upazila of the district on charge of misappropriating rice under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme.
