Slaughter of underage animals banned in KP

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority on Monday banned the slaughter of underage animals in the province.

According to the Authority’s Director Technical Dr Abdul Sattar Shah, butchers slaughtered underage animals and mixed it up with mutton, causing adulteration.He said that KP Food Authority intended to preserve animals’ generations and underage slaughtering is a damage to the noble cause.

The notification issued after a brief meeting of the research committee includes several other items to be banned. The items banned include, soft and energy drinks inside school premises along with loose chips. “Gutka Paan, Chalian, substandard ice-cream, and mislabelling or false labelling is also banned,” the notification reads.

Meanwhile, on the directives of the authority’s director general, the Peshawar team led by Assistant Director Saira Nisar inspected University Town area sealing the Cake Palace outlet over health hazard and unhygienic situations. Similarly, Sherin Mahal Sweets was also charged Rs200,000 over poor hygiene and unsatisfactory cleanliness.The director continued inspection and stroked on Shelton’s Rezidor, where more than 30 items were found expired.

The restaurant was fined Rs500,000. Similarly, Assistant Director Aneela Mahboob while inspecting food outlets on the Charsadda Road Peshawar, imposed a total fine of Rs1,75000 over violation of the Food Safety Act 2014.

On the other hand, Deputy Director Asad Qasim along with Assistant Director Murad Ali in Swat fined Master Foods Rs500,000 over expired pulp, expired raw material that was supposed to be used in squash, jams and juices.

More than 800kg raw material was discarded while another ice-cream factory was inspected and charged Rs40,000 for having saccharine inside the premises of the factory.