K-P food authority seals ‘synthetic’ jaggery factory

K-PFA director-general appreciated efforts of the excise officials, announced an Rs10,000 cash prize for them

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Food Authority (K-PFA) along with excise officials conducted a joint operation early on Monday and sealed a synthetic gur (jaggery) factory set up inside a house in the Hazar Khwani area of the provincial capital.

K-PFA Director General Riaz Khan Mahsud in a statement appreciated the efforts of the excise officials and announced an Rs10,000 cash prize for them.K-PFA Director General Riaz Khan Mahsud in a statement appreciated the efforts of the excise officials and announced an Rs10,000 cash prize for them. Mahsud added that making synthetic jaggery from glucose and sugar consisted a crime under the K-P Food Safety Act and that no one is authorized to do so.

K-PFA DO Khalid Khan Khattak said provincial excise officials had information about synthetic gur production.

“We deputed a team led by Food Safety Officers Ahmad Ali Shah and Wasif Shah to inspect the venue along with a technical squad. They found people were making gur with the help of glucose, sugar and non-food colours,” Khattak revealed.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 18^th, 2019.