RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has pulled up socks against honey manufacturers and warned them to meet the food standards as per the PFA rules and regulations or face strict action.

In this regard, the PFA has circulated notice to all honey manufactures under the PFA Act 2011 (section 2(b)) to adopt standard operating procedures (SOPs) of food and to contact PFA’s officials till November 9.

The PFA will collect the honey samples for laboratory test from market in the presence of company’s representatives by following

blind-sampling method on Nov 10.

The samples will be checked by ISOs and Pakistan Certified Council’s certified laboratories.

PFA Director General Noor-ul-Amin Mengal said that the PFA was receiving complaints about the sale of substandard honey in market on which the PFA decided to take strict action against adulterators to curb the sale of substandard and unhygienic honey.