PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority on Sunday seized more than 800 kilogrammes of substandard meat near the Motorway Toll Plaza area.
The operation was conducted on the directives of the authority’s director general Shahrukh Ali Khan.
The authority’s teams also checked various food outlets in Mardan. During the operation, stale meat was recovered from a butcher’s shop.
The shop was sealed and a fine was imposed on the owner.
Various dairy shops were also inspected and milk samples were taken and tested in the mobile laboratory.
Two dairy shops were sealed for mixing water in the milk.
According to the authority’s officials, two substandard juice manufacturing units were also sealed in Shergarh area of Mardan.
Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2022
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