RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) on Wednesday claimed to have suspended 10 licences of non-conforming brands of Vanaspati & Cooking Oil in Karachi, Rural Sindh and Balochistan.

Also, the standard authority has seized as many as 26 ‘illegal’ non licensed bottled drinking water factories.

The PSQCA media advisor Rehmatullah Memon said the authority’s team visited Hub, Rohri, Sukkur, and Hyderabad with Mobile Testing Laboratory recently. The team focused on food products as a total 104 samples were tested on spot out of which 10 found non-conforming as per relevant Pakistan Standards.

He said 10 licences of non-conforming brands of Vanaspati & Cooking Oil were suspended that include R.B Oil Industries (Pvt) Ltd. Khajur Cooking Oil, Resham Banaspati, A.B Oil Industries (Pvt) Ltd. Absa Cooking Oil, Absa Vanaspati, Faisalabad Oil Refinery (Pvt.) Ltd., Port Qasim Kisan Banaspati, Kisan Canola Oil, M.M Ghee & Oil Mills (Pvt.) Ltd., Andaz Cooking Oil, Moulvi Cooking Oil, Indus Oil & Ghee Mills Super Supreme Banaspati, Rima Cooking Oil Rima Banaspati.

Some 26 illegal non licensed and sub standards bottled drinking water factories of Bottled Drinking Water were also seized which included Naafey Pure Water, The Aqua Water, Amaya Water, RO Plant, MITS Pure Drinking Water, Al Hada, Al-Mewat Safe Water Safe Life, Aqua Sara Pure Drinking Water, Pee Jee Beverage, Mirpurkhas Nemah Pure & Pure, Shah ikram Traders, Mirpure, Waterle Pure as Crystal Bottled Drinking Water, Bismillah Mineral Water, Aqua Pura, Primo Water, F.T. Enterprises, Mr. Water Haque Mineral & Aqua Clear Bottled Drinking Water etc.