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 across two divisions in Bangladesh. This is the highest number of illnesses since 2015.
Of the 11 cases, four were
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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, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It was designed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of
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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, food safety and cooperative development in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The amount of U.S. Agency for International Development
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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 from the Sundarbans, an environmentally critical area, and threatens its very existence. The Rampal power plant will have hazardous impacts
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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, according to new research published in The Lancet medical journal.
The study, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
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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 turned into law, will guarantee safer standards for fish and animal feeds that will ultimately improve food safety.
According to
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 to help train local health officials on aquaculture safety.
According to the FDA, the goal of the trip is to work
