Source: The News
Date: July 05, 2010
District Health Department has sealed another factory preparing, packing and selling fake clod drinks of known brands, which are being supplied to different markets of Rawalpindi.
A team of District Health Department in a joint operation with police sealed the factory in Jamilabad, Taxila, on Saturday and took into custody hundreds of bottles of 1.5 litres filled with fake clod drinks of renowned brands. During past four weeks, it is second factory that the team of District Health Department has sealed for preparing fake drinks.
The team headed by District Food Inspector Rana Ghulam Murtaza comprising Sanitary Patrols Riasat Ali, Muhammad Abbas and Sajid Mehmood stayed in Taxila Friday night to collect information about the factory and raided it Saturday afternoon. The police arrested owners of the factory including Muhammad Jehangir, Shaukat, Zahid Jehangir and Qasim and lodged FIR against the accused under sections 420, 468, 471, 482, 483, 485, 272, 273 and 278 PPC and 23-1-C of Pure Food Ordinance 1960.
Ghulam Murtaza told ‘The News’ Sunday that the factory was preparing fake drinks in highly unhygienic conditions posing a serious threat to public health. “We have taken into custody the bottles filled with fake drinks along with filling machine, gas cylinder and a pump machine for filling water into bottles,” he said and added that the factory was using chemicals for preparing these fake clod drinks.
Ghulam Murtaza said that his team raided the factory on the directives of District Health Officer Dr. Khalid Randhawa, who first received information about the malpractice. To a query, Ghulam Murtaza said that the factory had been supplying fake brands in different markets of Rawalpindi for many months. He, however, admitted that many other such factories are also operating business of fake drinks in the town. “We are busy gathering information about them and soon we will launch an effective operation against the factories selling fake drinks,” he claimed.
Link: http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=248903
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