LivestockMohammad Amin Ur Rashid warned new BCS fisheries and livestock officers that antibiotic residues reaching people through food are raising the risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
HealthThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection found unripe bananas being turned yellow with a banned chemical in 24 hours at Rakhalgachhi, Pabna, and fined the business Tk 50,000; 72 firms in 27 districts were fined the same day.
OrganicBK Foundation gave cash prizes and crests to eight farmers and organisations in Aminpur, Pabna, for safe-food and environment-friendly farming.
HealthThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined three shops in Shah Ali and Kalyanpur a total of Tk 150,000 for keeping loose soybean and palm oil in unhygienic, unlabelled drums.
HealthA two-month campaign promotes front-of-pack warnings on packaged food high in sugar, salt and saturated fat; the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority says it is drafting regulations on such labels.
At the prize ceremony in Des Moines, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said unsafe food sickens 866 million people and costs low- and middle-income countries an estimated $110 billion a year.
HealthUnder the Safe Food (Registration and Licence) Regulations 2026, listed food businesses from roadside snack stalls to restaurants, bakeries, cold stores and importers must register, and packets must carry a BFSA number; first registration for 16 common categories is free.
Daily lifeThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined 80 businesses in 28 districts a total of Tk 10,39,500, destroying chemically ripened bananas and about 204 litres of soybean oil kept in drums once used for urea-formaldehyde.
HealthMobile court raids on three adulterated jaggery factories in Bagha, Rajshahi, destroyed 45 maunds of gur and imposed Tk 10,000 in fines; 27 sacks of seized sugar were given to an orphanage.
A pure food court found the factory of Natore town's well-known Mouchak bakery making undated bread, biscuits and chanachur in dirty conditions beside a cattle farm, and fined the owner Tk 2 lakh.
Atomic Energy Commission scientist Dr Afifa Khatun writes that colour and smell cannot prove honey is pure, and calls for regular laboratory testing and tracing of adulterated products.
HealthDinajpur nutritionist Lina Akter says hygiene, safe water, cooking and storing at the right temperature and five other steps cut the risk of food contamination.
LivestockCommerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir said the whole chain behind fake and adulterated milk in the Pabna-Sirajganj dairy belt must be broken, not just fined, with a zero-tolerance drive to start from Pabna soon.
