All types of food including iftar items during Ramadan have to be free from adulteration, demanded some social and environmental organisations yesterday.

In this regard, they stressed effective implementation of the Safe Food Act, 2013 by the government.

At a human chain before the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University, Poribesh Bachao Andolon, Barsik, Jono Uddog, Green Mind Society, and Poribesh Unnayan Society made the demands.

The participants alleged that iftar items are fried in used and engine oil.

During the holy month of Ramadan, stale food items are ubiquitous, which can cause food poisoning, serious kidney and liver diseases, diarrhoea, and dysentery, they observed.

To stop the widespread food adulteration through commissioning of separate courts, the law was formulated but it is not implemented properly, they alleged.

They also demanded an end to mixing formalin, carbide or any kind of chemical with fruits.