LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has declared 47 ice cream brands asunfit for human consumption after releasing the sample results of 156 icecream and frozen dessert brands.
PFA Director General Muhammad Usman stated that products from Gourmet,Chamman, Royal and Badami Kulfa were included in the list. The authority isnow removing their products from the market, he said. The samples werecollected in September 2018.
He maintained that anybody can download the results from the authority’swebsite. PFA directed that all those brands which failed to meet thestandards stop production. The authority will collect samples for anothertest after ensuring proper reforms, he said.
The authority claims to have discarded 24,125 litres of frozen dessert andice cream during raids conducted in the different areas of Lahore onGourmet Foods and Chamman Ice cream outlets. Unfit ice cream products wereremoved from Gourmet’s branches at Umar Chowk, Township, Shama Cinema,Samanabad, Raja Market, Ayubia, Samanabad, G-1 Market, Jagwar Chowk JoharTown, Shadman, Yateem Khana, Multan Road, Airline Raiwind Road, PunjabSociety, Qila Qasim Shah and Military Accounts Society.
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Similarly, the enforcement teams raided six outlets of Chamman Ice Creamand sealed 13,426 litres ice cream and frozen dessert stock. The raids wereconducted on its outlets at Mall Road, Kareem Market, Faisal Town, ThokarNiaz Baig, Bahria Town, and Daroghawala.
Meanwhile, the PFA has seized 1,300 kilogrammes of substandard andunhygienic meat belonging to emaciated and sick animals during an operationin the provincial capital on Saturday.
