BSS: Speakers at a discussion here stressed the need for ensuring safe feed and resisting high-powered antibiotics use to get best quality of poultry meat.
They also sought support of concerned government and non-government entities to ensure safe poultry meat for a sound public health. The observations came at a view-sharing meeting with feed dealers, poultry drug sellers and poultry bird retailers at MRK College conference hall under Paba Upazila in the district on Tuesday. Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) organized the meeting in association with UKaid and British Council. An Issue-based project on “Food Safety Governance in Poultry Sector in Bangladesh” supported it. Chaired by CAB Field Coordinator Agriculturist Mijanur Rahman the meeting was addressed, among others, by Upazila Livestock Officer Dr Khandaker Sagar Ahmed, CAB Project Manager Syeda Amirun Nuzhat and its field officers. Agriculturists Mohidul Hassan and Mozammel Haque. The discussants viewed that good poultry farming practice to ensuring safe poultry and its production is very vital for making public health free from various diseases.
They mentioned there should be adequate measures to bring all the poultry farmers, traders, feed manufactures, sellers and others concerned under necessary training to enhance their awareness in this field.
All quarters like poultry feed and bird sellers, feed meal manufacturers and the field level officers and staffs should work together to this end.
Dr Khandaker Sagar Ahmed said the lion’s share of chicken meat and eggs are being produced by the poultry industry which has also created job opportunities all over the country as well.
He puts forward a set of recommendations on how to make the poultry sector safe and hygienic. Using overrated antibiotic in poultry feed is harmful for public health. So, time has come to look into the matter with utmost emphasis. “We have to ensure safe poultry feed and good poultry farming management,” he added.
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