Food pollution and associated health hazards

Basic food items like rice, fish, fruits, vegetables, sweetmeats, etc. are adulterated with hazardous chemicals like calcium carbide, oxytocin, ethephon, formalin, coating materials and different additives in an indiscriminate manner in Bangladesh. Food adulteration with poisonous chemicals has reached a dangerous proportion posing serious health hazards in the country people. Chemicals residues in food items leave the worst impact on children's mental and physical growth and women's fertility besides it causes cancer, and damage vital human organs like skin, eye, liver, kidney, lungs and heart. Some fruit items like guava, lemon, hog-plum etc.  and some fish items like koi, magur, shing, pangas etc. are however still free from chemical aggression. 

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NB: Primarily based on south asian countries and all information collected from different sources.

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