Food safety

Experts say Pakistan can become major player by meeting world standards

Participants instructed on maintenance of sanitation during cooking and serving

The PFA sealed 640 food points and had production stopped at 344 food outlets in September alone

Both sides explore possibilities of joint ventures

Minister says every stakeholder develop a food safety culture

Food watchdog DG reviews performance reports of past two months

The objective of the lecture was to spread awareness among future journalists regarding significance of healthy food

Food manufacturers, distributors to be lisenced in three categories

Wal-Mart Stores is testing the technology system on mangos

Around 1,500 to 2,000 samples of food items from across the city will be collected and analysed scientifically

And will they ever tire of trying to prove the theory?

Report says sewage water was not only hazardous in itself, but use of cleaning acids make water more dangerous

Regulating roadside food outlets is the PFA’s responsibility, Health Dept says

Rani Atiqa adds poaching continues in G-B

UoP spokesperson Akhtar Amin denied substandard food is sold at the canteen

Consumers Association of Pak Kaukab Iqbal said the conference will be helpful for providing awareness to consumers

Say Pakistani children continue to face issues of malnutrition

A total of 12 restaurants are in Category C and four in Category D

Social media sentiment towards the chain have also hit a low

Dr Saeed said they had registered cases against the butchers who had fled

Bajwa Hotel at Pulli Stop was sealed for operating without a licence

PFA officials fined Butt Sweets for pasting wrong labels on food products and poor hygiene

As per the findings of the analysis, the samples failed to meet health standards

VC Dr Talat Naseer Pasha chaired the workshop and the PFA Director Operations Ayesha Mumtaz was also present

Seminar discusses future course of action

Authority makes new draft bill to replace outdated law

1,200kg of meat unfit for human consumption seized

Islamabad Public Health Chief Dr Hasan Orooj stressed upon the need for a behavioural change among food handlers

Zafar said 326 food joints and two flour mills in Rahim Yar Khan were sealed

Empress Market was also raided by District South authorities

PFA Gulberg seals Jalal Sons in Faisal Town

PFA’s crackdown reminds people of the regulator’s absence in Sindh

Restaurants asked to undertake self-assessment based on the scale uploaded on the authority’s website

Attock Assistant Commissioner sealed Al-Habib Restaurant and Taj Mahal Hotel for unhygienic conditions

Several restaurants in and around Khanewal district were fined

Sahiwal commissioner chairs meeting of Punjab Food Authority’s divisional task force

Two dead sheep were also found

Akhtar said if someone died from consuming substandard food, the culprit could be sentenced to life imprisonment

Inspection teams have been constituted at district and tehsil levels

He said chemicals and harmful dyes should not be added to food

The notification said the Faisalabad commissioner was named secretary of the task force

Several eateries were sealed in Bahawalpur over hygiene standards

Factory Area police produced the butcher, Dilawar Hussain, before the magisterial court