This document contains a presentation by 6 students on ethics in food and public health safety in Bangladesh. It discusses the importance of ethics, challenges in maintaining ethics in food production and processing in Bangladesh, risks of unsafe food, and an analysis of government agencies and their efforts. Specifically, it notes that while some laws and agencies exist, most food in Bangladesh is unsafe for consumption due to corruption and adulteration at many stages of the food chain, posing major public health risks.

1. American International University Bangladesh
Mid Term Presentation
Ethics in Food and Public Health Safety in Bangladesh
Presented By
1) SM Ashikul Islam ID: 18-38619-2
2) Tasnia Hasnat ID: 18-37834-2
3) Saeed, Meer Shadman ID: 17-33584-1
4) Hasan,Shahriar ID: 17-33908-1
5) Tafhim, Bin Nasir ID: 17-33361-1
6) Md Barkat Ullah Tushar ID: 18-37965-2

2. Contents
 Introduction
 Importance Of Ethics
 State of maintaining Ethics in Producing and Processing Food in Bangladesh
 Risks of Food
 Analysis Of CAB and Government
 Analysis of Food

3. What is ethics:
 Ethics isn a branch of philosopy that
systematizes,defends and recommends
concept of right and wrong conduct.
 Ethics is commonly used interchangeably
with morality.
 It is syetem of moral priciples.
 ‘’Ethics’’ this term derived from Greek word
which mean custom,habit,character or
disposition
Introduction

4. Types of ethics
 Defining ethics, meta ethics ,Descriptive
ethics
 Normative ethics,Applied ethics,Role
ethics,Anarchist ethics,postmodern
ethics,ethics of care.
 Engineering ethics,bioethics geoethics,
geoethics and business ethics.

5. Main areas in food ethics
 Food security- food for all
 Food safety-non-contaminated food
 Nutritional values-health,modified foods
like functional food etc
 Food system with health system raise
numerous ethical issue about individual and
public health.

6. Importance of ethics
Workplace Ethics:
Privacy and dignity: testing,harassment
conscience: conflicts of interest, blind ,loyality ,whistle blowing
downsizing ,operations
Fairness: discrimination,QWL,respect to family
Ethics and social responsibility: its responsibility in
workplace,business and social..
Code of ethics: It is a systemetic set of rules and procedures used to
guid the behavior of an individual a business or a culture..
Ethics in public relation
Ethics in education: it promotes honest academic inquiry and teaches
students ethical behavior in the process
Food and public health safety: its produced good quality of food and
safe from many dieases for ethical issue.

7. Advantage in ethics
 Can be used in academic and professional
capacity
 Make easier relationship between people
 Great job opportunity
 Constant feedback from customers
 Allow to construct personal identity and
virtual and share information like hobbies
ideologies, beliefs

8. State of maintaining ethics in producing and
processing of foods in Bangladesh.
 prioritize people’s safety first or Profit.
 Conflicts with Moral Ethics.
 Bangladesh Standards and Testing institutes(BSTI)
 Bangladesh Food Safety Authority

9. Only 5% mango in mango juices
Juice Name % of Fruit Pulp
Mango King 4.4
Pran frutix 4.8
Shezan 5.4
Aafi 6.2
Bangladesh Standard Specifications (BDS) = 10% of Fruit Pulp.

10. High level of heavy metal in imported milk powder
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has made the examinations of lead (Pb) compulsory
for all imported powdered milk .
But the tests found up to 0.1 mg per kg that is very alarming for public
health.
the maximum accepted level of lead (Pb) for milk powder is 0.02 mg per
kg.

11. Risk of Food
Risk of food more likely to cause food poisoning. Children
younger than five in Bangladesh are the greatest risk from
eating unsafe food, which causes at least of death.
Most food poisoning is caused by bacteria. It can also be caused by
1. Virus.
2. Parasites.
3. Chemicals that may get into food.

12. The food contamination and food adulteration situation of
Bangladesh are:
1.Serious public health concern.
2.Life-long diseases.
3.Diarrhoeal diseases.
4.As well as various forms of cancer.

13. People are mixing formalin like drug,

14. Analysis of CAB and Government
There are some government and non-government Agencies for
food safety in Bangladesh :
 Bangladesh Food Safety Authority
 Consumers Association of Bangladesh
 Directorate General of Food
 Directorate of National Consumers' Right Protection

15. Bangladesh Food Safety Authority
 Ensure the effective and uniform enforcement of food regulations
 Monitoring the safety of the food supply chain
 Coordinating the work of the many official food controlling agencies
 Upgrading the food safety standards or guidelines
 Accrediting food testing laboratories of food Industries

16. Consumers Association of Bangladesh
 Protecting Consumer Food Rights
 Creating Social awareness about food safety
 Campaigning against harmful drugs and Tobacco
 Food Quality Testing

17. Directorate General of Food
 Managing and operating of country's overall food system
 Establishing of dependable national food security system
 Adjusting food Safety Policy
 Making Rules for ensuring food safety

18. Government Activities for Food Safety and Public Health
 Made Food Safety Act 2013
 Formed National Food Safety Management Advisory Council
 Upgrading laws against Admixture of food
 Forming Mobile Court to stop indiscipline in Food sector

19.  In Bangladesh most of the foodstuffs are unsafe for consumption.
 This problem occurs at every level of the food chain from
preparation to consumption.
 Food manufactures and restaurants are involved in this corruption.
 Foods are adulterated by using various chemicals and toxic colors.
 This unhygienic and unsafe treatment of food is causing public
health.
 Because of this numerous chronic and non chronic diseases are
occurring.

20.  Fruits and vegetables are the main source
 of nutrition.
 People are sacred of buying fruits from market due to
food adulteration.
 The newspapers have out and out conferred it as silent
killer.
 Farmers use a cocktail of toxic chemicals in their efforts
to fight insect pests and they are not sufficiently aware
of that.
 The results also indicate deliberate adulteration of
produce to extend its shelf life using chemical
preservatives without concern for the health of
consumers.

21. THANK YOU