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Eight Islamabad Cafes Sealed Including Savour over Unhygienic Food
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casper_iam
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Re: Eight Islamabad Cafes Sealed Including Savour over Unhygienic Food on Ch Nisar's Orders
chaleee hain to kat he jaeee ga safar ahista ahista......
chaleee hain to kat he jaeee ga safar ahista ahista......
Night_Hawk
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Islamabad hygiene drive: Blood, sweat and tears ... in your food
[h=1]Islamabad hygiene drive: Blood, sweat and tears ... in your food[/h] Siddique Humayun
The Islamabad administration was on the move yesterday. A plan was conceived, officers gathered, the Director General of Punjab Food Authority, Dr Sajid Chauhan and the famous Ayesha Mumtaz called for a briefing, and eventually, a coordinated action took place against all food outlets in the federal capital.
Many famous hangout places became infamous, infamous bakeries became notorious and factories which had employed underage kids as labourers, sealed no, not for child labour, but for kneading flour with their feet; mixing, quite literally, sweat, tears and hair in what we have been consuming every day.
The evil does not lie only in the big kitchens where we fine dine; the horror stories lurking in Islamabad's outskirts are equally scary. Nishaa Ishtiak, Assistant Commissioner, Potohar, was out with a team consisting of a Medical and Sanitary Inspector in her jurisdiction, on the fringes of the federal capital.
She sealed four factories and four roadside hotels, and fined a pizza joint for reasons too gruesome for the stomach to handle. Owners were arrested and FIRs registered against the people responsible for producing unhygienic food items.
"Bakery products were laying on the floor next to cattle. These home-made factories are taking Churchill's words to heart and offering nothing but their sweat, tears and blood," said Ishtiak.
No one really cared for food hygiene and sanitary conditions until recently; well, to be honest, no one really cares for it even now. We are yet to have a system where food outlets are monitored regularly and graded according to a given standard. However, there is word that such a system might actually be under development.
Famous names like Chaye Khana and Savour Foods were sealed, although, word on the street would vouch for the cleanliness of some of these places. Whatever might be the case, in some of these well-known places of Islamabad, a one-of-a-kind coordinated action resulted in near panic among owners of various outlets and businesses, some of whom closed their business and stopped for the day before they could be raided.
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[h=1]Islamabad hygiene drive: Blood, sweat and tears ... in your food[/h] Siddique Humayun
The Islamabad administration was on the move yesterday. A plan was conceived, officers gathered, the Director General of Punjab Food Authority, Dr Sajid Chauhan and the famous Ayesha Mumtaz called for a briefing, and eventually, a coordinated action took place against all food outlets in the federal capital.
Many famous hangout places became infamous, infamous bakeries became notorious and factories which had employed underage kids as labourers, sealed no, not for child labour, but for kneading flour with their feet; mixing, quite literally, sweat, tears and hair in what we have been consuming every day.
The evil does not lie only in the big kitchens where we fine dine; the horror stories lurking in Islamabad's outskirts are equally scary. Nishaa Ishtiak, Assistant Commissioner, Potohar, was out with a team consisting of a Medical and Sanitary Inspector in her jurisdiction, on the fringes of the federal capital.
She sealed four factories and four roadside hotels, and fined a pizza joint for reasons too gruesome for the stomach to handle. Owners were arrested and FIRs registered against the people responsible for producing unhygienic food items.
"Bakery products were laying on the floor next to cattle. These home-made factories are taking Churchill's words to heart and offering nothing but their sweat, tears and blood," said Ishtiak.
No one really cared for food hygiene and sanitary conditions until recently; well, to be honest, no one really cares for it even now. We are yet to have a system where food outlets are monitored regularly and graded according to a given standard. However, there is word that such a system might actually be under development.
Famous names like Chaye Khana and Savour Foods were sealed, although, word on the street would vouch for the cleanliness of some of these places. Whatever might be the case, in some of these well-known places of Islamabad, a one-of-a-kind coordinated action resulted in near panic among owners of various outlets and businesses, some of whom closed their business and stopped for the day before they could be raided.
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Night_Hawk
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[h=1]Substandard food: Crackdown reaches Islamabad [/h] By Danish Hussain
Published: September 10, 2015
Most of the restaurants were not complying with hygiene and cleanliness standards. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD:
Ayesha Mumtaz the iron lady of the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) as dubbed by the national media has brought with her to the federal capital a phenomenon currently making waves in the provincial capital, Lahore, which is crackdowns, fines, arrests and closures of outlets serving unhygienic food to the public.
In Islamabad, Wednesday was a day of dramatic developments as teams of the city administration one after another raided, sealed and fined some 51 famous eateries across the city, besides arresting 37 food adulterators and sealing 17 outlets.
Though, Mumtaz did not personally participate in the operation, around seven food inspection teams headed by different assistant commissioners of the ICT Administration motivated by her, completed the task without fear or favour, said Abdus Sattar Esani, additional deputy commissioner Islamabad, who was overall in charge of the operation
.
From high-end cafs and restaurants to roadside hotels; food processing factories to twin
cities most popular Savour Foods and Chaaye Khana, the food businesses faced penalties ranging from serving mere notices to arresting owners.
Inspection teams collectively imposed fines amounting to Rs144,000 during surprise raids across the capital.
Seventeen First Information Reports have been lodged with respective police stations, while 37 people including owners of some food businesses were arrested during the first day of campaign titled Anti-Adulteration Campaign in the ICT.
Restaurants, cafs, hotels and bakeries which were fined or sealed include Chaaye Khana, Habibi Restaurant, KFC, Jamil Sweets, Orient at F-10, Roasters, House of Bombay, Savour Foods, Rahat Bakers, Best Western Hotel, Hot and Spicy at Bahria Town, Caf Oxygen, Gujranwala Restaurant F-10, Karachi Nihari F-8, Food Garage F-8, Sheesha and Smoke Villa Bahria Town, Ashraf Bakery, Zeeshan Bakery, and Chaudhary Bakery among others.
Three food processing factories were also sealed.
FIRs are registered under Pure Food Act, and Section 269 of the Pakistan Penal Code, said Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Capt (retired) Mushtaq Ahmed.
He said that operation against food adulterators would continue in the coming days and it would be a regular feature in future.
Mushtaq said that violations which were noticed include washroom in production area, dirty kitchen, dirty and unmanaged freezers, leftover food, food left in open, spider webs, dirty ingredient boxes, poor personal hygiene of staff, unvaccinated staffers, and substandard ingredients in recipes among others.
Home-based food industry in rural part of Islamabad also came under the scanner. An inspection team headed by Assistant Commissioner (Rural) Nisha Ishtiaque sealed four such factories located in Shams Colony. In rural Islamabad four roadside hotels, a pizza outlet, and eight food stores were sealed, which were running under extremely unhygienic conditions.
A team of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) including its director-general Asad Islam Mahni and director (operations) Ayesha Mumtaz are currently present in Islamabad on a special invite of the federal government.
Twin cities administration should follow the way the PFA is cracking down on outlets selling unhygienic food in Lahore and others districts of the Punjab, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday, while chairing a meeting at the ministry.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10[SUP]th[/SUP], 2015.
Published: September 10, 2015
Most of the restaurants were not complying with hygiene and cleanliness standards. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD:
Ayesha Mumtaz the iron lady of the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) as dubbed by the national media has brought with her to the federal capital a phenomenon currently making waves in the provincial capital, Lahore, which is crackdowns, fines, arrests and closures of outlets serving unhygienic food to the public.
In Islamabad, Wednesday was a day of dramatic developments as teams of the city administration one after another raided, sealed and fined some 51 famous eateries across the city, besides arresting 37 food adulterators and sealing 17 outlets.
Though, Mumtaz did not personally participate in the operation, around seven food inspection teams headed by different assistant commissioners of the ICT Administration motivated by her, completed the task without fear or favour, said Abdus Sattar Esani, additional deputy commissioner Islamabad, who was overall in charge of the operation
.
From high-end cafs and restaurants to roadside hotels; food processing factories to twin
cities most popular Savour Foods and Chaaye Khana, the food businesses faced penalties ranging from serving mere notices to arresting owners.
Inspection teams collectively imposed fines amounting to Rs144,000 during surprise raids across the capital.
Seventeen First Information Reports have been lodged with respective police stations, while 37 people including owners of some food businesses were arrested during the first day of campaign titled Anti-Adulteration Campaign in the ICT.
Restaurants, cafs, hotels and bakeries which were fined or sealed include Chaaye Khana, Habibi Restaurant, KFC, Jamil Sweets, Orient at F-10, Roasters, House of Bombay, Savour Foods, Rahat Bakers, Best Western Hotel, Hot and Spicy at Bahria Town, Caf Oxygen, Gujranwala Restaurant F-10, Karachi Nihari F-8, Food Garage F-8, Sheesha and Smoke Villa Bahria Town, Ashraf Bakery, Zeeshan Bakery, and Chaudhary Bakery among others.
Three food processing factories were also sealed.
FIRs are registered under Pure Food Act, and Section 269 of the Pakistan Penal Code, said Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Capt (retired) Mushtaq Ahmed.
He said that operation against food adulterators would continue in the coming days and it would be a regular feature in future.
Mushtaq said that violations which were noticed include washroom in production area, dirty kitchen, dirty and unmanaged freezers, leftover food, food left in open, spider webs, dirty ingredient boxes, poor personal hygiene of staff, unvaccinated staffers, and substandard ingredients in recipes among others.
Home-based food industry in rural part of Islamabad also came under the scanner. An inspection team headed by Assistant Commissioner (Rural) Nisha Ishtiaque sealed four such factories located in Shams Colony. In rural Islamabad four roadside hotels, a pizza outlet, and eight food stores were sealed, which were running under extremely unhygienic conditions.
A team of Punjab Food Authority (PFA) including its director-general Asad Islam Mahni and director (operations) Ayesha Mumtaz are currently present in Islamabad on a special invite of the federal government.
Twin cities administration should follow the way the PFA is cracking down on outlets selling unhygienic food in Lahore and others districts of the Punjab, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday, while chairing a meeting at the ministry.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10[SUP]th[/SUP], 2015.
