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The Mysterious Domination of Food/drinking Water Contaminants and Adulterants in Bangladesh

A.K.Mohiuddin
Department of Pharmacy, World University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Food adulteration and contamination is nothing new in this age. It is the consequence of modern civilization, people moving from places with altered social value and ethics, industrialization and rapid progression of economic activities. It is highly prominent in urban areas of many developed or underdeveloped countries and so is with in Dhaka city. Commercialism and business mind drive people to ward such unethical activities knowingly or un knowingly.

Keywords: Carcinogen, Chemicalintoxication, Foodpoisoning, Healthhazard, Pathogen, Adulterants

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Program Area: Food Safety and Security

Commodity: Contamination

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Contaminated food, filthy and unhygienic environment of urban cities result in health hazard which may even cause deaths. The healthcare providers/policy makers' role in environmental health is related primarily to being alert to the conditions prevailing in the community and of working with others to adequately control any of the attendant hazards.

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Comprehensive literature search followed by consulting healthcare professionals, Hospital, clinic associates, newspaper journalists, NGO workers about adulteration and food contamination. A few high officials were asked help for necessary books, journal, and newsletters. A few local magazine and newspapers also observed to get the necessary concern. Projections were based on various types of adulteration in food served/sold to general people, contaminated drinking water supply from a variety of sources. Gross Outcomes of Chemical Contamination Food remains a significant vehicle of disease organisms. Food borne disease, more commonly but often incorrectly called “food poisoning,” is grossly underreported. In most instances the illness produced by contaminated food is mild and of short duration, but more severe outbreaks (such as hepatitis A, most commonly seen in public restaurants) can occur. Epidemics of food-borne disease are dramatic and sudden, and most people become sick within 6 to 24 hours after consuming the contaminated foodstuffs. The epidemic pattern of food-borne disease presents differently from the gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea) induced by intestinal enteroviruses. The safety laws and regulations of Bangladesh are as given inTable1. WHO published –chemical exposure to toxic level is suspected to be involved in causing.

Source of Information: Agriculture and Food Sciences Research Vol. 6, No. 1, 30-40, 2019 ISSN(E) 2411-6653/ ISSN (P) 2411-6653

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI:10.20448/journal.512.2019.61.30.40

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With constant change to the physical, biological, cultural, social, and economic environment, both healthcare providers and citizens should cultivate an informed awareness of these changes, and health providers should adapt their methods of health education, disease prevention, and disease control to the changes in each community. This is especially true food daily consumed, which require concerted community action for their control, but providers may play a much more fundamental and personal role in controlling food-borne diseases; often, the first indication of an outbreak of food-borne disease is time-limited, with an unusually large number of people seeking relief from health hazards. The necessary role in environmental health is related primarily to being alert to the conditions prevailing in the community and of working with others to adequately control any of the attendant hazards. Government related authorities, NGOs and other private organizations (e.g. Pharmaceutical companies) should take initiatives further to ameliorate food and drinking water situation which is worst among all other previous times. General people should be aware of these facts of mischiefs and take necessary steps on their own. A year-round campaign regarding these issues in public places, electronic media and even in rural areas can bring a change as brought by diarrhea, Vitamin A campaigns back in 70's and 80's.

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