No loose milk for tea at SAU

The Sindh Agriculture University has banned the use of open milk, bought from dairies and cattle pens, for making tea in all its hostels. Hostel provost Dr Abdul Wahid Baloch, in a circular, directed students and managers of hostel mess to stop the use of open milk forthwith.

He cited health concerns as the reason for the ban pointing out that the open milk came with many impurities which can be harmful for health. "To ensure health and safety of all hostel residents, the use of open, unprocessed milk in SAU's hostels is now prohibited," reads the circular.

The students and the mess managers have been advised to either consume tea without milk or to use the processed milk which is sold in tetra packs.

The varsity's spokesman informed that a team of the Sindh Food Authority checked the samples of milk in the canteens and mess in the universities and in its hostel.

The team found milk samples unfit for human consumption. According to him, a similar ban has also been enforced in all the canteens of the SAU's campus.