Educationalists and experts on Friday urged the local industries to strictly maintain the standard and balance of chemicals in all their products for ensuring safe public health.
They made their recommendations at a discussion organized by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution at its auditorium to observe the eighth World Metrological Day.
Like more than 80 countries of the world, the day was observed across the country with the theme of 'Chemical measurements for our life, our future'.
Mohammad Fakhrul Islam, head of the department of glass and ceramic engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, who presented the keynote paper said when chemicals are used over a certain limit they become harmful for the human body.
Nowadays, harmful chemicals are being used as preservative to improve the shelf life of products, he alleged, adding that formalin was being used to preserve fish and carbide and growth hormone were used in fruit for their ripening and preservation.
He also alleged that most textile industries and tanneries dump harmful wastes in river water, causing the water to be contaminated.
Fakhrul suggested the government to enforce the rule in all industries to have effluent treatment plants and enforce laws on the producers and importers to test products before marketing.
The industries minister, Dilip Barua, called upon the local industrial producers, BSTI and the concerned people to ensure product standard, to use of international standard measurements and to reduce cost of products to a logical point.
He said that the government had taken steps to establish a Chemical Metrology Laboratory so that the country-made products could get international recognition easily in terms of weight and measurements of chemicals used in the products.
Chaired by BSTI director general AK Fazlul Ahad, the meeting was also addressed by industries ministry additional secretary ABM Khurshid Alam, International Commission on Illumination president Franz Hengstberger and BSTI director (Metrology) Md Khademul Islam.
The Khulna office of BSTI also arranged a discussion meting at its office at Khalishpur area in Khulna city on Friday afternoon to mark the day.
Source: New Age
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