PFA to start food sampling campaign

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will start a ‘ghee, butter and cheese’ sampling campaign from next month across the province. The purpose of the campaign is to ensure the provision of safe and healthy food by checking the quality and standard of the products.

PFA Director General Muhammad Usman has directed teams to collect samples for laboratory testing from the open market on September 4. The campaign will continue till September 5. He said that samples will be collected in the presence of the company’s representatives by following the blind-sampling method. In this connection, the authority has released a notification to companies for contacting PFA no later than September 3.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 1^st, 2019.