Project launched to ensure food quality

Under Safe Food Cities, 2,277 food outlets will be monitored

RAWALPINDI:

Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha has said Punjab Food Authority has launched the Safe Food Cities project from September 1 to December 31, 2023, under which food business operators have been selected from main areas across the city.

As many as 2,277 food business operators have been selected from Rawalpindi, various KPIs including adulteration, and consumption of substandard and expired items will be checked for quality in these food business operators to provide clean and healthy food to the public.

He expressed these views while presiding over a meeting held at the Commissioner's Office. Additional Commissioner Coordination Syed Nazarat Ali, Assistant Commissioner General Maleeha Iesar, Director Food Authority Amna Rafiq, Deputy Director Food Authority Abdul Rehman, and other food safety officers participated in the meeting.

On this occasion, while giving a briefing on behalf of the PFA, the participants of the meeting were informed that the Safe Food Cities Project and Safe Food Zone Project have recently been launched by the authority.

The participants were also apprised that 200 food zones have been set up in the Rawalpindi district for the Safe Food Zone Project. There are 4,614 Food Business Operators (FBOs) in these zones which will be inspected multiple times to implement the vision of providing clean and quality food items to the people.

Likewise, 2,277 FBOs have been selected for the Safe Food Cities project for which various KPIs have been finalised to create an environment free from adulterated, counterfeit products and keeping in mind the hygiene norms.

Apart from this, actions are being taken based on checking against adulteration and consumption of substandard items.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19^th, 2023.