The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety Authority (FSA) on Friday seized a vehicle carrying 2000 packs of substandard cold on Indus Highway Kohat. While speaking to the media, Deputy Director Operations FSA, Kamran Khan Yousafzia said that the vehicle was transporting the low quality cold drinks to Kohat from Peshawar when intercepted by the FSA team on Indus Highway.
He added that the operations against fake and substandard cold drinks was in full swing in Kohat since late March 2019, in which nearly 40,000 such drinks were seized along with three vehicles, which were later returned.
He added that two distributions points were also sealed in these operations. Yousafzai said that in another operation at Shakar Dara, a remote area of Kohat, two outlets were sealed due to presence of harmful ingredients.
He said a total of 58 outlets were inspected by FSA team in Shakar Dara, among which a bakery was sealed for using non-food colours and a grocery shop sealed for selling China Salt.