Punjab Food Authority has selected the township area as an initial for conducing survey to know about the consumption of milk and aware people about the pasteurization process. Meanwhile, PFA and Livestock Department’s joint teams have kicked
off the survey campaign.
This was revealed by PFA Director General retired Captain Muhammad Usman during the press briefing on milk pasteurization and progress of the department, held at Punjab Food Authority Headquarter on Tuesday. He briefed media about the pasteurization law and its execution plan as well as daily consumption of it which would be judged in the survey.
He said that they would start the provision of pasteurized milk at the doorstep of consumers in the light of survey results. He said that a comprehensive plan concerning the availability of healthy and pure milk has been entered in the final stage under the pilot project of milk pasteurization. He further said that PFA would spread this project across the city after executing from one area of the city to other areas. He said that the sale of loose milk would be completely banned by 2022. He said that the packaging standards of pasteurized milk have been determined while PFA to be completed legalisation about the milk supply vehicles before the end of December 2019. He said that it is easy to keep an eye on a few hundred pasteurized units as compared to thousands of milk selling points. Pasteurization is the only solution to the elimination of milk adulteration from Punjab. He has appreciated the role of
media to spread the message of the PFA. The teams would go door-to-door for a survey and
to remain in the field from 9am to 3pm, he added.