FAISALABAD – A district health team raided a factory and recovered tons of adulterated red chili being packed by its employees. The raid was a part of Distirct Coordination Officer (DCO) Nasim Sadiq’s ongoing crackdown against those playing with the lives of people by selling unhygienic and adulterated food items.
The DCO had recently formed a special committee headed by Dr Captain Muhammad Akram to root out adulteration from the city. The committee was tipped off that a factory owner, Bakhtyar Ahmed Billoo, at Chibban Road was involved in the adulteration of food on a large scale. The team headed by Dr Captain Muhammad Akram and Senior Food Inspector Malik Abdul Qayyum raided the factory at midnight and recovered 1,200kg red chillies, 2,400kg dry white brown chillies, 920kg black pepper and a large quantity of chokar (animals’ food) from the factory.
The factory owner escaped from the scene. The health officials sealed the factory, took the samples and sent them to Special Food Testing Laboratory. In another raid, the food inspectors checked dozens of fresh milk sellers and found that they were supplying adulterated milk to their customers.
The inspection team registered cases against them, seized their milk cans and sent samples for lab testing.
