900 litres of Substandard Milk, 750kg Chinese Salt Confiscated in KP

Thu Oct 19 2023
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority on Thursday conducted raids in Peshawar and Mardan districts and recovered huge quantities of substandard milk and banned Chinese salt.

A spokesperson of the Food Authority said that a team of Food Safety visited Chamkani Police Station area and checked various vehicles. During checking more than nine hundred liters of sub-standard milk was confiscated and discarded.

Likewise, another team of Food safety acting on a tip-off conducted a raid in Hawajaganj Bazar in Mardan district and seized about 750 kg of banned Chinese salt from a warehouse.

The spokesman said that heavy fines have been imposed on the accused and action has been initiated under the Food Safety Act.

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