The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has highlighted food safety-related work in several countries.
A food control system assessment has been started in Pakistan. The initiative aims to
Eight people have died in Bangladesh after consuming contaminated raw date palm sap.
From early January to mid-February, 11 cases including eight deaths from the Nipah virus have been reported
A project on food safety in Bangladesh has improved the situation but gaps still remain, according to an evaluation document.
The report covers efforts from 2013 to 2019 in Bangladesh,
USAID and USDA have awarded funding to Land O’Lakes International Development for capacity building and food safety projects in six countries.
Five programs will focus on agricultural capacity building,
The government of Bangladesh is advancing plans to install a coal-based thermal power plant in the area of Rampal in the Bagerhaat district. This project is only 10 kilometers away
Between 35 and 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking contaminated water, a public health calamity causing one in five deaths in the country,
On January 19, the Bangladeshi parliament passed a bill prohibiting the use of antibiotics, growth hormone, steroids and other harmful pesticides in animal and fish feeds. The new bill, if
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) sent a team of seafood safety specialists to Bangladesh this week
