UNITE to stop this crime

This is not to push the panic button. But as studies suggest, chemicals are recklessly and deliberately added to most of our food items making them harmful, and sometimes fatally so.  Slowly but surely, we're poisoning ourselves, day after day.

The government sometimes wakes up to the reality after media reports. Some fruits are destroyed, traders fined and then the government goes back to sleep and the whole affair goes into oblivion, as the media change focus.

Sadly and strangely too, food safety has never been a priority policy agenda of our decision-makers, although it affects the whole population, especially our children.

For far too long we have allowed the situation to continue. Time has come to take some effective steps to change the situation. 

In 10 investigative reports, The Daily Star will reveal who adulterate food, why and how. We will also suggest ways to end this hara-kiri.

Your newspaper is firmly committed to helping protect people's most fundamental right -- the right to SAFE FOOD.

So, stand up and rally behind our initiative: Safe food, Safe life.

We invite the government, growers, traders, retailers, parents, teachers, scholars, and all citizens concerned to work together and ensure SAFE food for children.

-- Editor