Quality check: Restaurants fined for selling unhygienic food

RAWALPINDI:

Rawalpindi District Consumer Protection Council (DCPC) has fined restaurants and bakeries for selling unhygienic food items and not mentioning manufacturing and expiry dates on their products.

DCPC issued challans to Des Pardes restaurant in Saddar, Rahat Bakers on Peshawar Road and Adnan Dairy Center on Dhoke Syedan Road for selling impure and unhygienic milk.

The council has urged the public to always check manufacturing and expiry dates and ingredients while purchasing a product.

The Punjab government has set up DCPCs and consumer courts in eleven districts of the province to promote and protect consumer rights.

Public can lodge complaints with the councils which are currently working in Lahore, Gujranwala, Sahiwal, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sargodha, Gujrat, Sialkot, Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi districts.

In Islamabad last week, two high-end bakeries were fined Rs10,000 each in Sector F-11 for inadequate private security arrangements by the assistant commissioner.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 23^rd, 2015.