Food laws: Sweets production unit sealed over poor hygiene

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority’s (PFA) Samanabad Town team on Monday sealed Mustafa Sweets’s production unit on Shah Kamal Road for having a washroom in the production area. The facility had poor cleanliness arrangements and insects were detected there. Workers also could not produce medical certificates. The authority imposed a fine on Faisal Restaurant and Zaiqa Restaurant near LDA Flats, Kotha Pind, for storing food in dirty freezers. Both food outlets also lacked proper counters. The Data Ganj Bukhsh Town team fined Jarra Daal Chawal and Labha Murgh Chanay for operating without counters. Flies were also detected there. The University of Education’s canteen, Fri-Chicks on College Road and Abbasi Hotel in Shahdara were fined for similar reasons.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 3^rd, 2016.