FAISALABAD - The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) sealed a food factory after seizing more than 300-kilogram (kg) unhygienic and spurious spices, here on Sunday. A spokesman for the PFA said that Deputy Director Operations Ammar Javaid conducted a raid at a food factory at Jhang Road and found heavy quantity of spurious spices, which were being packed in a unhygienic conditions. The team seized spurious spices as well as 7-kg unapproved labeling material. The PFA deputy director also sealed the factory and discarded the seized material, in addition to imposing Rs 100,000 fine on the factory owner, the spokesman added.
QEEMAT APP 108 COMPLAINTS ADDRESSED
The monitoring squad has addressed 108 complaints received on the Qeemat app regarding profiteering and non-display of price lists in Faisalabad during the past 24 hours.
A spokesman for the local administration said here on Sunday that the deputy commissioner had directed shopkeeper and trader associations to display price boards at conspicuous places at their shops, in markets, bazaars, and stalls and also constituted a special monitoring squad in this regard. The squad received 108 complaints through Qeemat app about non-display of price boards and profiteering during the last 24 yours. The squad took prompt action and addressed all complaints by issuing warning to 74 shopkeepers and imposing Rs 40,500 fine on 34 profiteers, he added.
37 PEOPLE SHIFTED TO SHELTER HOME
The district admin has shifted 37 shelter-less people from different parts of city to shelter homes through shuttle service, during the last 12 hours here. A spokesman for the local admin said here on Sunday that 18 persons were picked from Chowk Clock Tower, six from Daewoo Road, five from Jail Road, as many from Sargodha Road and three from Millat Chowk and were shifted to shelter home. He said that the shelter-less people were not only provided residential facilities to spend night at shelter home but they were also served with the evening meal. He said that three vehicles of Faisalabad Urban Transport Society (FUTS) were providing free pick and drop facility to such people who spend their nights on footpaths, green-belts or other open area