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Lahore: PFA Busts Gang Making Milk With Chemicals

Lahore (July 26, 2017): Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday busted a gang making unhygienic milk with chemicals and powder in a factory in Changa Manga.

A group of people making milk with chemical and powder in a factory in Changa Manga was  taken into custody during a raid by PFA.

According to PFA Director General Rafia Haider, the accused had been supplying unhygienic and artificially made milk to shops in Lahore.

During the raid, PFA workers also wasted 11,000 litres of artificial milk on the spot.

Earlier, Punjab Minister for Food Bilal Yasin said the food authority will monitor the supply of milk to all major cities of Punjab, according to a statement on the Punjab government website. He had announced to deal with an iron fist those involved in mixing chemicals and other unhygienic material in milk.

While talking to the media then, Yasin had said detergents and chemicals were being mixed at factories he raided in Okara. He had ordered to seal the factories named Gujjar Dairies and Kashmir Dairies. The food minister had also ordered registration of an FIR and arrest of the factory owners.

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