LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Monday served warning notices for improvement to 209 cereal production units and penalized 33 others with hefty fines over violations during the province-wide cereal inspection drive.
The authority also stopped the production of a unit besides discarding more than 80kg of expired ingredients.
PFA Director General Raja Jahangir Anwar said the food safety teams inspected 268 cereal units across Punjab including 126 in Lahore division, 13 in Faisalabad, 39 in Sahiwal, 25 in Gujranwala, 18 in Rawalpindi, 17 in Sargodha, 21 in DG Khan, five in Bahawalpur and four in Multan.
He said a food safety team raided a unit and stopped its production owing to contamination in cereal while 33 units were penalized with hefty fines due to not complying with the previous instructions.
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