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The PFA team raided a nimko factory on Masoom Shah Road. The officials sealed it over preparing substandard products and sent samples of spicy colours being used in nimko to laboratory for analysis.
The Punjab food Authority (PFA) has sealed several factories and shops involved in making unhygienic edible items, including sweets and oil. According to a PFA press release, “Some factories are producing adulterated beverages which are impacting the health of our future generation. These people ruin the future of the country in order to get easy money,” it states.
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It adds contaminated food has been around for a long time due to the use of low quality cooking oil and unsanitary methods. “PFA has begun a crackdown and the authority will continue to work until all such shops are closed altogether.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th, 2017.
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