900 litres of substandard milk, 750kg Chinese salt confiscated

By APP
October 20, 2023
A vendor wearing a facemask fills a can with milk at a farm in Islamabad, Pakistan. — AFP/File
A vendor wearing a facemask fills a can with milk at a farm in Islamabad, Pakistan. — AFP/File

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

A spokesman of the Food Authority said that a team of Food Safety visited Chamkani Police Station Check here and checked various vehicles.During checking more than 900 liters of sub-standard milk was confiscated and discarded.

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