Indian sugar fit for consumption: TCP

KARACHI: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has said that 700 tons of imported sugar, kept in its storages, is fit for human consumption according to laboratory tests conducted by the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR). “Moisture content (in the sugar) is well within prescribed standards,” the TCP quoted a PCSIR report as saying. In a press release, the TCP was responding to a report published in The Express Tribune titled “Utility stores to buy substandard Indian sugar” on December 21. Further elaborating, the TCP said it had taken up the case with the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) for the disposal of 700 tons of sugar and the ECC approved the Ministry of Commerce’s proposal to sell the commodity through an open tender. However, it said the ECC sought a few clarifications which were being responded. The TCP clarified that its chairman was abroad and a director represented it in the ECC, which did not expel any official. Rather, the agenda item was discussed in a cordial manner.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2012.