Food standards: Four restaurants and cooking oil factory sealed
Water and Power Development Authority to disconnect electricity to the factory
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BAHAWALPUR:
The crackdown against food outlets and companies manufacturing substandard food in Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur areas is in full swing. On Tuesday, four restaurants and fast food joints were sealed for poor hygiene standards. Cases have been registered under the Food Control Act against the owners of two of the eateries while the other two have been fined.
Rahim Yar Khan Assistant Commissioner Javed Ahmad said they had led an inspection of some of the most popular restaurants in the city. Café Lemus, Mianwali Hotel, Hot Chicks and Papa Johns were sealed and Pizza Point and Almaida were fined. Cases have been registered against the owners of Mianwali Hotel and Papa Johns. Ahmad said the team had found poor hygiene practices. He said they had also collected samples of substandard ketchup, cooking oil and meat. Ahmad told the media that the crackdown had been launched on orders the provincial government and directions from Rahim Yar Khan DCO Captain (retd) Zafar Iqbal. In Sadiqabad, officials led a raid near Adam Sahaba, behind the Industrial Estate, on a cooking oil manufacturing factory that was manufacturing oil from chicken carcasses collected in the district. Assistant Commissioner Shakeel Ahmad Bhatti said the oil was being supplied to several restaurants to fry samosas, pakoras and other fried items in. He said the factory workers managed to flee. He said they asked the Water and Power Development Authority to disconnect electricity to the factory. A portion of the factory, which had not been constructed according to the approved plan, was torn down.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 26th, 2015.
The crackdown against food outlets and companies manufacturing substandard food in Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur areas is in full swing. On Tuesday, four restaurants and fast food joints were sealed for poor hygiene standards. Cases have been registered under the Food Control Act against the owners of two of the eateries while the other two have been fined.
Rahim Yar Khan Assistant Commissioner Javed Ahmad said they had led an inspection of some of the most popular restaurants in the city. Café Lemus, Mianwali Hotel, Hot Chicks and Papa Johns were sealed and Pizza Point and Almaida were fined. Cases have been registered against the owners of Mianwali Hotel and Papa Johns. Ahmad said the team had found poor hygiene practices. He said they had also collected samples of substandard ketchup, cooking oil and meat. Ahmad told the media that the crackdown had been launched on orders the provincial government and directions from Rahim Yar Khan DCO Captain (retd) Zafar Iqbal. In Sadiqabad, officials led a raid near Adam Sahaba, behind the Industrial Estate, on a cooking oil manufacturing factory that was manufacturing oil from chicken carcasses collected in the district. Assistant Commissioner Shakeel Ahmad Bhatti said the oil was being supplied to several restaurants to fry samosas, pakoras and other fried items in. He said the factory workers managed to flee. He said they asked the Water and Power Development Authority to disconnect electricity to the factory. A portion of the factory, which had not been constructed according to the approved plan, was torn down.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 26th, 2015.