Letters to the Editor
Attention, food minister
A news published in The Daily Star on 12th June left me shell-shocked. It says that a study conducted in 26 areas' shops of Dhaka city revealed that around 94 percent of the mangoes and 100 percent blackberries and litchis are formalin-tainted! So, all the seasonal fruits the city dwellers are buying with their hard-earned money for their children are poisonous. These killer fruit traders are slow poisoning the whole nation to death for their own benefit. Government's efforts to curb this practice have been in vain. So, how to save our children from these killers? The only way to stop this, I think, is to award them exemplary punishment and have that news spread throughout the country so that the crooked traders restrain from poisoning fruits. Honourable food minister, will you give this idea a thought please?
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