4.9. Fish and Animal Food Act, 2010

4.9. Fish and Animal Food Act, 2010 & Fish Feed Rules, 2011
The current national framework governing residue control suffers from insufficient legal authority to impose control on use of antibiotics in shrimp feed or imported feed ingredients (Action Plan BD, 2010). The local feed manufacturers and suppliers are not registered and they require no license. Due to lack of law, some of them get away with selling poor quality feed, chemicals and antibiotics in the market (Financial Express, 2010). The Government of Bangladesh has recently enacted Fish and Animal Food Act in 2010 and Fish Feed Rules in 2011 to ensure the quality of fish feed used in fish culture sector. The laws are enacted to cover the country’s score of feed producers and importers, who very often sell sub-standard and adulterated fish and animal feeds, exposing millions of people to deadly diseases like cancer (Financial Express, 2010). To stop the toxic antibiotics from getting into the food chains, and control the fish feed manufacturing, registration is mandatory under section 4 of The Fish and Animal Food Act (2010). Anyone violating this provision can be punished by not more than one year imprisonment or TK.50,000 as fine or both as mentioned in section 20 of the same Act (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 1992).