PESHAWAR
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority (KP FS&HFA) during a raid near Shahalam Pul area of Peshawar here on Sunday seized over 2500 kilogram of substandard jiggery and sealed the fake production unit.
The action was taken on the directions of Director General KP FS&HFA Shahrukh Ali khan.
According to the Food Safety Authority, the Unit was producing jiggery with use of sugar, substandard jiggery and non-food grade colours, instead of sugarcane. The statement added, the substandard jiggery from the unit used to be supplied to various parts of the city.
During the raid over five kilogram of non-food grade color was also confiscated from the unit.
According to the Food Safety Authority officials the hygiene condition of the production unit was also found very deplorable.
The statement added that KP FS&HFA is working round the clock to ensure safe and healthy food to the people and all those found in violation of Food Safety Authority Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) will be dealt with strictly.
According to the Food Safety Authority, the inspections of food outlets were also carried out in the rest of the province. In district Khyber a shop sealed over sale of substandard beverages and chips, while improvement notices were issued to a number of hotels.
In Dera Ismail Khan various dairy shops were inspected, the quality of milk was checked with help of Mobile Food Testing laboratory.
The Food Safety Authority discarded milk with water adulteration, and a fine was imposed and warning notices were issued to the dairy shops.
