Crackdown on substandard, hazardous food items intensified

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority has intensified its crackdown on substandard and hazardous food items.In major operations carried out in Bannu and Mardan, large quantities of unhygienic offal and expired beverages were seized and immediately disposed of.

According to details released by a spokesperson for the Food Safety Authority, the Bannu food safety team intercepted a vehicle during a checking point on the main route and confiscated over 1,000 kilograms of hazardous and substandard offal and internal organs of animals. The seized items were promptly destroyed, and legal action was initiated against the vehicle’s owner. In a similar operation in Mardan, the food safety team raided a grocery store in Takhtbhai and seized over 1,500 liters of expired different beverages along with 800 packs of expired chips and biscuits. These items were also discarded, and the store owner was fined heavily.

Director-general of the Food Safety and Halal Food Authority lauded the food safety teams for their successful operation, reiterating that eliminating adulteration mafias and substandard food businesses is the authority’s mission.