A special team of Punjab Food Authority led by Provincial Minister for Food Bilal Yaseen has inspected various food points, food manufacturing factories and vegetables cultivating fields located at different area in the city, on Monday. The team sealed a bread making factory on unhygienic and stinky conditions.
During the visit of factory premises, it was observed that food items were being prepared with smelly and adulterated ingredients while so called "butter" was being used in the manufacturing process and there were no manufacturing and expiry dates printed on cakes labels.
The Minister shown his fury on pathetic working situation and asked the management as to why medical fitness certificates were not displayed and why there was no pesticide arrangements made in production unit. "Such carelessness in production of food items shall not be tolerated" he warned.
The management of 'Wonder Bread' was failed to satisfy the team on which raw material weighing 15,000kg while 1,353 prepared breads were taken in to custody on the spot. Meanwhile, the team inspected vegetables field located at Tariqabad where cauliflowers were being irrigated by sewage culminated industrial water.
Bilal Yaseen ordered to uproot immediately vegetable cultivated on 5 acres land. He said Punjab Government had prohibited use of polluted water in farming and violators are playing with the health of consumers. "Keep continue regular visits of suburban areas of the town and inspect such fields where sewage water was being used in cultivation purposes," he directed Deputy Director Food Authority Faisalabad", minister said.
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