Bangladesh Food Safety Authority
Formation2015
HeadquartersDhaka, Bangladesh
Region served
Bangladesh
Official language
Bengali
Websitewww.bfsa.gov.bd

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority is an autonomous national food safety regulatory agency which works as a statutory organization and is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[1][2] Mustak Hassan Md Iftekhar is the chairman of the authority.[3]

History

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority at Chawkbazar on 13 April 2023

The authority was formed in February 2015,[4] under the Food Safety Act 2013.[5][6] The authority works under the Ministry of Food.[7] The authority was modeled on the United States Food and Drug Administration.[8] It is governed by a five-member decision-making body.[9] The agency has its own mobile court that can fine and sentence people for food adulteration.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Ensuring safe food a far cry". The Daily Star. 24 September 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Unified food safety authority on cards". The Daily Star. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Drive against unsafe food to go on". The Daily Star. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Dangerous toxins in food chain". The Daily Star. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Food safety and Bangladesh". The Independent. Dhaka. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Food safety in Bangladesh". The Daily Star. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  7. ^ "A commendable move to ensure food safety". The Daily Star. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Food safety law with some teeth". The Daily Star. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Bangladesh gets new regulator to oversee revised food safety law". FoodNavigator-Asia.com. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Errant chain stores, restaurant fined in capital". The Daily Star. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.


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