Watch what you drink: Spurious soft-drink factory sealed in Lahore
Large quantities of filled bottles, raw material was seized
June 13, 2017
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday raided and sealed a factory using expired ingredients to manufacture popular soft drinks.
"Shandy Cola's production unit was sealed following the raid," PFA Director Operations Rafia Haider said.
A hundred thousand filled bottles and raw material for four-hundred thousand bottles was seized from the factory, located on Lahore's Sheikhupura road.
The soft-drink manufacturer was using chemicals as sweeteners, the PFA said further.
"The factory was imprinting a bogus address on the bottles to trick authorities," Haider said, explaining that their teams first visited the site on the printed address and grew suspicious when they found nothing there.
She added that samples of the cold drinks have miserably failed all quality tests.
