PFA seals four factories

LAHORE:

The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday sealed four factories related to food business.

The sealed units included ketchup and sauce factory and honey production unit.

The PFA food safety teams discarded 430 prohibited ‘gutka’ sachets, 400 kgs of substandard chilli garlic sauce, 280 kgs of fake honey and 50 kgs of glucose, said a PFA statement.

PFA Director General Rafaqat Ali Naswana said that ketchup and sauce factory was sealed for using prohibited starch in preparation of sauce at Ferozewala. “False labelling, using plastic crockery and fungus infested mixer machinery are the reasons of it being sealed. Poor arrangement of cleanliness and stinky water is witnessed during the raid.”

On the other hand in Faiz Bagh, honey production unit was sealed over preparing fake honey with addition of sugar, glucose and non-food graded colours.

He further said that a bakery was sealed in Ravi Town on the charge of finding of excess of rodents, flies and insects in production area, fungus infested broken freezer, open dust bin and eatables were placed on ground.

He added that food safety teams raided in Shah Pur Kanjra and sealed a paan shop on the account of selling prohibited gutka.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 16^th, 2020.