SHANGLA: The Alpuri tehsil administration on Wednesday booked 12 Kebab vendors after the assistant commissioner, Alpuri found minced meat (Qeemah) adulterated with toxic colour at the Kebab restaurants in the district headquarters Alpuri’s bazaar and sealed the shops using the hazardous minced meat.
Following by the public complaints, the Alpuri tehsil assistant commissioner, Mohammad Hamid Saddiqui initiated a crackdown against vendors putting the public lives at risk by selling substandard foods and adulterate food material.
The AC Alpuri along with his staff conducted raids in the district headquarters Alpuri bazaar, Lilownai, Bely Baba and other areas of the tehsil on Wednesday and found highly unhygienic minced beef at the Kebab restaurants.
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“Upon checking the Qeemah at the restaurants, I found toxic colour and difference between the meat color, the one in the fridge was completely red and the other 80 percent white and found the colour they put into the minced meat for its colour,” AC Alpuri, Hamid Saddiqui told Dawn.
He added that mostly Kebab vendors add 70-80 percent Onion and 20-30 percent minced meat (Qeemah) in the Kebab material and for fixing its colour they used the toxic kind of colour which was hazardous to the human health.
AC Alpuri said he had sent three Kebab vendors to prison and lodged FIRs against the rest of Kebab Resturants and sealed three others total and he took action against 12 total in number.
Assistant commissioner said he would not spare any vendor who put the public lives at risk and spreading chronic disease by adulterating foods for some money and those did not come to the right way he would deal with them with iron hands.
He said the people of Shangla used to consume the substandard Kebab were unaware of the minced meat what did they use in it and were known restaurants in the district and the crackdown against this mafia would be continued until they stopped violations and ensure selling of safe foods.
DEWORMING CAMPAIGN: The deworming program district coordinator, Sajid Khan said that 286,000 children aged 5-15 would receive strawberry flavoured chewable deworming tablets during the ongoing a weeklong campaign till November, 8 this month.
The deworming program’s district coordinator, Sajid Khan told Dawn that every year the schools, both private and government and Maddrasas students of aged 5-15 were being given the deworming tablets in order to shield children from stomach worms.
He said they had set a target of 286,000 children to be dewormed in the weeklong drive in which the health workers and school teachers were taking part in and it will be concluded on November 8 tomorrow and he expecting the Shangla target would be achieved.
