A delegation of the British company DIFD has met with Director General Punjab Food Authority Captain (R) Muhammad Usman at his office on Wednesday. During the meeting, they reviewed the present condition of the fortification of oil and ghee and planned for future action plan.
Muhammad Usman said that the Punjab Food Authority has given clear directions towards food fortification in its Pure Food Regulations. They also discussed procedures and problems may be faced. He said that all oil and ghee brands are screened regularly bi-annually. According to the survey of national nutrition, almost half population is suffering from vitamin deficiency but we can control on it to make certain the approved proportion of the food contents are made compulsory in food commodities like oil, ghee and flour.
On the other hand, DG PFA said that fortification for flour is best source for recovering the deficiency of food nutrition as well as oil
and ghee. To ease the industry, a concise and systematic procedure would be applied for fortification