The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Thursday launched a grand operation against food adulterators in Harapa, Kamaliya, Sahiwal and Okara to control the practice of adulteration and ensure provision of healthy and safe food in Punjab. PFA Director General Muhammad Usman said PFA's vigilance cell and PFA special operations teams intercepted a truck by foiling a bid to supply thousands of litres tainted milk in Kamalia. He said teams disposed of 25,000 litres confiscated milk over proved contamination of formalin, urea, starch, surf and polluted water in it.

The PFA has lodged a case against accused in the respective police station. He said that food authority was making the best possible efforts to control the elimination of milk adulteration as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The DG further said PFA also unearthed two Khoya units involved in the preparation of adulterated Khoya in Harapa. The Khoya units were being prepared with vanaspati ghee, powder and hazardous chemicals. Meanwhile, all prepared Khoya was preserved in non-food grade drums.

Usman informed that the PFA confiscated 80kg substandard vanaspati ghee, 100kg adulterated Khoya, blue drums, and a freezer during the raid. The team PFA also shut down a factory manufacturing plastic bottles. Meanwhile, the DG directed the Director Admin PFA to prepare the preliminary budget for the fiscal year 2019-2020 within two days.

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