PFA Director General Captain Muhammad Usman(R) said that food safety teams visited 945 food sites in a daylong operation, including 203 food businesses in Lahore Zone, 415 in Rawalpindi Zone and 327 sites in Multan Zone. "The PFA Sialkot team shut down King Beverage Factory (producing powerful drink) for violating PFA Act's rules," he added.
He also said that the teams have sealed the factory on account of producing drinks on 450ppm caffeine level instead of 200ppm. "The excessive quantity of caffeine (more than 200ppm) adversely affecting the human nervous system and causes blood pressure, insomnia, cardiac, obesity, hypertension, borne and other diseases," he added.
Usman further said that if caffeine content is more than 100 ppm it must be declared on label as 'highly caffeinated drink'. "The PFA had imposed a ban to write word 'energy' on stimulating/caffeinated drinks and eight months business adjustment time was given to them for meeting the required standards of PFA regulations.
It is a responsibility of PFA to provide the right information to people along with ensuring the provision of healthy and quality food. The PFA will not allow anyone for selling harmful products which are being sold in the market," he added.