Speaking at an interaction on right to food organized by the Consumers’ Rights Protection Forum and the National Network for Right to Food Nepal here on Friday, he emphasized that the farmers into commercial farming should be alerted to use produce pesticides-free food products.
Joint-secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture Mohan Chapagain said many innocent lives were being lost due to substandard and adulterated food stuff in the absence of necessary regulations to check them.
Presenting a working paper on the occasion, General Secretary of the Consumers’ Rights Protection Forum, Jyoti Baniya called for a bill to guarantee the right to food.
District attorney of the Food Technology and Quality Control Department Sita Sharma Adhikari suggested taking people involved in producing and selling contaminated food into custody for necessary investigation.
Many speakers at the programme called for a new Food Act to replace the existing one that was introduced in 1966. RSS
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