<i>Adulterated food</i>

Zafar Alam Bhuiyan, Lecturer of Fashion Design, Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology

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I cannot purchase any kind of fruit for my loving kids! As a father, this is so painful for me. The unscrupulous traders use poisonous chemicals in fruits and other food items. They use calcium carbide to ripen bananas, heat the papayas to make those look red. Fish and vegetable traders use formalin in their products to keep those fresh. Milk is also not pure. These adulterated food items pose serious threat to public health. People are suffering from various diseases like cancer, heart disease and kidney failure. The number of cancer patients has increased alarmingly. These dishonest traders should be given exemplary punishment for committing such heinous crimes.