PFA disposed of 1,015,820 litre tainted milk in a year.

LAHORE -- The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) disAposed of 1,015,820 litres of substanAdard and adulterated milk during one year besides imposing a fine of Rs 35.345 million on 3,262 milkmen. This was revealed in an annual perAformance report of PFA Operations Wing regarding the anti-adulteration milk campaign. The authority inAspected 42,660 milk carrier vehicles laden with 65.241 million litres of milk. However, teams found chemiAcally contaminated and substandard milk in 5,448 milk carrier vehicles. PFA Director General Muddassir Riaz Malik said the quality of millions of litres of milk was examined by modAern lactoscan machines and discardAed 25,395 maunds of milk after provAing contamination of polluted water, urea and hazardous ingredients in the milk. He said that every milk-carArying vehicle entering in the city is checked by PFA's mobile testing labs fully equipped with state-of-the-art lactoscan machines and for this purpose...