Letters to the Editor
Formalin in food
Photo: Focus Bangla
Your June 14th issue had a proposal by a retired army officer to have a yearly "Safe Food Day" on June 14th, in memory of fourteen children who died from eating litchis sprayed with insecticide in June 14, 2012. On the same page under the comments column, another writer had his opinion about formalin in fruits, which went like this, “It has been going on, and will go on. We are truly helpless. We are being poisoned by our fellow countrymen. What an irony!"
The only remedy for this is to enact harsh laws so that persons guilty of such crime will have to suffer at least five or more years of RI. Moreover, the cases against such crime should be non-bailable. Only such stringent measures, if regularly enforced, will gradually stop such crimes.
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