The dairy safety teams of Punjab Food Authority on Saturday morning held screening pickets in the provincial metropolis as well as its surrounding districts to control the wicked practice of milk adulteration.
During the crackdown, the authority disposed of as many as 18,000 litres of chemically contaminated milk loaded on six milk vehicles. Milk was being carried from Okara to Lahore for supplying at local shops. Meanwhile, the screening pickets were placed on the directions of PFA Director General retired Captain Muhammad Usman.
The dairy teams have taken milk samples for screening test on the spot for ensuring the provision of adulterated free milk in Punjab as per the vision of Prime Minister of Pakistan. The teams have held tests of 105,000 litres milk on the spot by using lactoscan milk analyzers machines. Muhammad Usman said that food authority seized a fully loaded six milk tankers of tainted milk from the spot. However, tainted milk disposed of thousands of litres milk over proved contamination of chemicals, powder, urea fertilizer and banaspati ghee. He told that the action was taken against them on the information of arrested accused (drivers) which caught two days ago in another raid.
The director general further said that PFA has been expanding the circle of operation against milk adulterators in order to tighten grip on them. PFA is getting fruitful results by following the guidelines of PM Imran Khan. Muhammad Usman said that the Punjab Food Authority would not allow the sale of ‘white poison’ in the name of milk in the market. He said that it is the utmost priority of PFA to ensure the provision of pure milk as per the vision of the Government of Pakistan. PFA is trying hard to make strict rules as punishment against the violators especially adulterators, he added.