Petition dismissed: Packed milk ‘not adulterated’

Court dismisses petition after report from foreign laboratory declares packed milk fit for consumption.

LAHORE: Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Tariq of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition challenging the supply of allegedly adulterated packed milk.

The court dismissed the petition after a report from a foreign laboratory declaring packed milk fit for consumption.

Barrister Zafarullah Khan of the Watan Party Pakistan had moved the petition, submitting that 80 percent of the packed milk supplied to the market was contaminated. The court appointed a committee for examination of the milk and sent the samples of packaged milk to five different laboratories including the PSCIR, the Food Department and Eurofins, an international food inspector company in Germany.

All the organisations declared that the packaged milk was free from any contamination and fit for consumption.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 23^rd, 2010.