Dhaka, Nov. 14 -- The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has started issuing health certificates to facilitate export of food products from the country.

The first two health certificates given by the BFSA went to ESL Bangladesh Limited and Trust and Trade.

The food safety authority handed over the certificates at an event organised by the food ministry at the head office of BFSA at its office in the capital on Sunday.

Earlier, the Export Promotion Bureau has been temporarily issuing health certificates according to a decision taken by all the ministries few months ago.

On September 6 this year, it was decided in an inter-ministerial meeting that only BSFA will issue this certificate.

Now Bangladesh will give health certificate f...