Production units sealed in Faisalabad

FAISALABAD: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Sunday sealed a Gurr and a Tangri production units on Toba Road Jhang and Sheikhupura Road, Faisalabad. A PFA spokesman said the jaggery unit was owned by Ghulam Abbas and others. The accused were busy preparing spurious jaggery by using expired items of toffees, candies and etcetera. The PFA team seized 800kg spurious jaggery and the machinery too, he told. It also unearthed a sweet jaggery sticks production unit on Sheikhupura Road where spurious sweet jaggery sticks were being prepared.

The PFA team seized 600kg spurious sweet jaggery sticks and 100 litres used and dirty oil and other chemicals, he said. The PFA team sealed the units and started further investigation, he added.