Punjab Food Authority busts group making milk with chemical, powder in Lahore
July 25, 2017
LAHORE: A group of people making milk with chemical and powder in a factory in Changa Manga was busted during a raid of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday.
According to PFA Director General Rafia Haider, the accused would freeze the artificially made milk later supplying it to shops.
During the raid, PFA workers also wasted 11,000 litres of artificial milk on the spot.
In January, Punjab Minister for Food Bilal Yasin said the food authority will monitor the supply of milk to all major cities of Punjab, according to a statement on the Punjab government website. He had announced to deal with an iron fist those involved in mixing chemicals and other unhygienic material in milk.
While talking to the media then, Yasin had said detergents and chemicals were being mixed at factories he raided in Okara. He had ordered to seal the factories named Gujjar Dairies and Kashmir Dairies. The food minister had also ordered registration of an FIR against and arrest of the factory owners.
The samples food minister and his team had collected of the milk showed presence of detergents and chemicals in the liquid.
Besides cracking down on milk factories, the food authority has carried out a number of raids on different setups making adulterated and substandard food items.
