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  Harmful street-vended food in Dhaka

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:47am on February 28, 2020

  Street food has always become an integral part of the urban food culture and an important way to appease the appetite of the multitude in...

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  It’s not about street or indoor food but hygiene: Professor ABM Faroque

  | Updated at 12:42am on February 28, 2020

  Dhaka University pharmacy department professor ABM Faroque said that ‘we should focus more on hygiene than street or indoor food as it can become contaminated...

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  Rules needed to regulate standard of street food: Monjur Mohammad Shariar

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:40am on February 28, 2020

  Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection’s deputy director Monjur Mohammad Shariar said that rules on street food preparation, management and serving were needed to regulate...

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  Studies find germs in street food, water, vegetables

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:27am on January 31, 2020

  The Dhaka residents are at high risks of contracting enteric diseases like diarrhoea, cholera and typhoid as the city’s drinking water, vegetables and street foods...

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  Bangladesh achieves self-sufficiency in food: minister

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Savar | Updated at 11:42pm on January 18, 2020

  Food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Saturday said Bangladesh had achieved self-sufficiency in food as the government had implemented massive effective development programmes...

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  ACC arrests food inspector

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:10pm on January 09, 2020

  The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday caught a food inspector red-handed at Dumuria in Khulna when he was taking Tk 1 lakh as bribe from a businessman....

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  Local spice consumption can save foreign currency

  Mohammed Ataur Rahman | Updated at 12:00am on December 25, 2019

  SPICY food is the tradition of Indian civilisation from time immemorial. Flavouring foods and making them tasty by adding different plant parts during cooking or...

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  Minister for boosting halal food industry

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 11:05pm on December 22, 2019

  Industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun Sunday called upon the private sector to work with the government to take the opportunities of the huge demand...

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  Court orders recall of Hakim Pury Zarda for cancer risk

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:33am on December 10, 2019

  A Dhaka court dealing with food adulteration cases on Monday ordered the owner of Hakim Pury Zarda, a popular brand of smokeless chewing tobacco consumed...

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  2.35cr without enough food in Bangladesh

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:22am on December 10, 2019

  The Global Hunger Index launched in Bangladesh on Monday said that over 2.35 crore people in Bangladesh were undernourished due to lack of adequate supply...