LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority enforcement teams on Wednesday sealed 21 food points over multiple violations of the Punjab Pure Food Regulations. The PFA watchdog teams also served warning notices for improvement to 472 food joints.
The authority sealed milk shops, snacks production units, paan shops, BBQ points, general stores and other eateries while carrying out an operation against counterfeiters and to control the wicked practice of adulteration.
PFA Director General Irfan Memon said the PFA raided various premises and sealed many eateries and production units besides imposing Rs 330,000 fine on 65 food business operators. He said PFA team raided Cheery Food Industry on Javed Nagar Sheikhupura Road Lahore and sealed it for manufacturing snacks with expired ingredients like rancid oil, spices and artificial flavours. He said the team also witnessed the presence of lizards, rats, insects and cobwebs in the production area.
The dairy safety team of PFA closed down five milk shops over low level of LR and natural fats in milk besides the contamination of polluted water. The teams have sealed these shops in the area of Chungi Amar Sadhu. The PFA Bahawalpur team sealed Line Heart Shawarma Point and Kamran Cold Store for preserving food at foot level, failing to produce temperature control record and not paying the license fee. A team of PFA shut down Pervaiz Paan Shop in Multan for selling gutka. The sale of gutka is strictly prohibited in Punjab after the PFA imposed a ban on it. Further, PFA sealed Kham Dasti Hotel in Layyah and Hammad Department Store in DG Khan for not submitting the fine amount, selling loose spices and not complying with authority instructions. The authority also sealed three food points in Raheem Yar Khan, Bahawalnagar and Rajpur.
In Gujranwala, the provincial food regulatory body has sealed Adnan Chicken Shop and New Sardar Bakery for not having manufacturing and expiry dates on products, poor cleanliness arrangements, using newspapers to cover edibles and not paying the license and fine amounts.
The PFA Sialkot team sealed Shahzad Tika for not taking proper measures to control pests, worst condition of hygiene and not having expiry dates on products. The PFA watchdog team shut down Wahid Tea Stall and Ramzan Butt Milk Collection Centre in Mandi Bahauddin whereas officials sealed Lahori Murgh Chanay in Narrowal.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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