Three milkmen held over adulteration

FAISALABAD - A team of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has arrested three milkmen and registered cases against them on resisting the inspection team and adulteration. According to official sources here Thursday, a team headed by Additional Director Punjab Food Authority Tariq Mahmood Gill stopped some milkmen at Sargodha Road to check quality of milk which they were carrying to supply at hotels and domestic areas, but one Nadeem with others offered resistance and blocked the Sargodha Road to pressurise the team. The team, however, held three milkmen and registered cases against them.

Meanwhile, Additional Director Tariq Gill said that it was the priority of the food authority to ensure supply of quality and standardised milk to consumers and all out resources were mobilised in this regard. He said that the food authority was regularly checking the quality of milk being supplied to people in the city at different roads approaching the city. He said that elements involved in adulteration deserve no leniency and strict legal action was being taken against them.



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