Milk provided to City unfit for humans

For the first time in Lahore, the city district government decided to carry out study of different aspects of milk related diseases and to identify chemicals causing hazards to human health. District Coordination Officer Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta directed the CDG food department to collect milk samples from the animals in their original environment. The food squad collected seven milk samples from Badar Colony Harbanspura, Qalandar Pura near water pond, Katchi Abadi Saggian off Bund Road, Taj Company Chowk adjacent to Gunda Nulla off Bund Road, Katchi Abadi Saggian Pul adjacent to Gunda Nulla and Dera Moveshian Bhama-Jhuggian.

The selected places are generally representative of the environment provided to the cattle, which are desolate, barren, pond ridden and some of them are near the dry river bed, which is itself a Gunda Nulla carrying all the filth of the City. All the collected samples were submitted with the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Laboratory for chemical and pathological analysis. The laboratory declared all the samples unfit for human consumption due to contamination of bacteria and hazardous chemicals. Moreover, the concentration of essential minerals was either found high or less in all the milk samples.