Accessible: K-P Food Authority starts online licencing app

New mobile app will be used to register complaints

PESHAWAR: To make the process of getting a food licence easier for sellers and manufacturers of foodstuff, the provincial food authority has launched an online licencing system.

Moreover, a mobile application has also been launched which the public can use to register complaints.

This was disclosed at a news briefing by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Food Safety and Halal Food Authority on Friday.

The application has been designed and developed by the information technology wing of the authority.



During the briefing, the authority’s Administration Director Mohammad Shoaib gave a short overview regarding their performance.

Shoaib said that over the past seven months, the authority had conducted 25,000 inspections across the province. During these investigations, they had seized and disposed of more than 600,000 substandard food items.

Moreover, they had thus far sealed 800 premises while recovering Rs60 million through fines and licence fees.



The Authority's Operations Director Khalid Khattak said that over the past month, they had launched a wide-scale operation during which the authority’s teams in Mardan, under the supervision of Deputy Director Zeeshan Mehsud, had discarded over 210,000 rotten eggs found in a cold store.

Further, Khattak said that their teams had recovered 10,000 kilogrammes of woodrush from a mix spices manufacturing factory during a crackdown in Peshawar.

The woodrush, they said, was being used in producing the spices which were injurious to health.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 17^th, 2018.