Under a new TCB guideline, family card holders keep their monthly oil, sugar and lentils, while soap, salt, tea, flour and spices become optional products that anyone can buy.
Zahirul Islam, director general of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection, said existing policy barriers to the food processing industry must be removed.
The 11th BAPA Foodpro International Expo brought more than 200 brands from 27 countries and over 4,000 technology and machinery solutions to Dhaka.
In an interview, BAPA general secretary Syed Muhammad Shoaib Hasan explains what the three-day 11th Foodpro International Expo offers and the challenges facing food processing exports.
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority fined 16 establishments a total of Tk 20.5 lakh and filed 16 cases in drives across the country from 23 to 29 August.
The SAARC Agriculture Centre in Dhaka met heads and senior representatives of national and international organisations to identify possible joint programmes and areas of cooperation for 2027.
The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution has ordered 10 products, including Bombay Sweets spice mixes and Baghabari ghee, withdrawn after they failed laboratory tests against the Bangladesh Standard.
Bangladesh has taken the drafting of a National Food Environment Strategy a step further at a WHO-organised national consultation that agreed its priorities and roadmap.
The cabinet committee on economic affairs has approved in principle the purchase of 15,000 pieces of dunnage for government food warehouses and a special procurement route for five immigration technologies.
An e-book marking the government's first 180 days says public warehouses hold a record of more than 24 lakh tonnes of food grain and details subsidised sales, procurement and food-safety measures.
Mobile courts run by the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority fined seven food businesses a total of Tk 10 lakh and filed seven cases in the week from 9 to 15 August.
Milk Vita has raised the price of its milk by Tk 10 a litre from 5 August, citing higher costs of raw milk, fuel and inputs.
Food has been distributed among 300 families affected by the recent flood in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari.
