Sheikhupura: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) officials have reportedly seized 500,000 packets of juice from a factory on Sheikhupura Road early Sunday morning. Thereafter the factory was sealed, told PFA Director General Noorul Amin Mengal. In addition, eight tonnes of rotten and substandard pulp was also seized from the factory.
He also explained that the raid was conducted upon information provided by the vigilance cell of the authority. It came to PFA’s notice that the factory workers were using rotten pulp and chemicals to prepare juices.
The factory which prepares juices of various fruits for a well-known brand does not even use pulp in many of its juices, according to Mengal. All the juice bottles failed laboratory quality tests. The hygiene conditions inside the factory were also substandard with flies and bugs found inside the factory store, stated PFA.
