Quality control

The sale of substandard food items reflects the failure to implement quality control mechanisms. Legal and administrative action is required to impose a crackdown on food adulteration. City Mayor Waseem Akhtar has taken a welcome step by issuing a warning to the staff of the food and quality control lab at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation about the matter. As per the mayor’s orders, if the inspectors either adopt a complacent attitude towards adulteration or support the makers of substandard food, they will be dismissed from service.

Contaminated and substandard food triggers countless health concerns and efforts must be made to prevent the sale of such items in the market. The makers and distributors of such items should be booked and the relevant authorities must carry out surprise inspections to maintain quality control. These concerns should be dealt with on a priority basis as the health of citizens cannot be compromised at any cost.

Zara Kamal

Karachi