Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has kicked off crackdown against untreated waste water irrigated vegetables crops and discarded 693 acres of vegetables across the province.
On the directions of Director General Punjab Food Authority, food safety teams under the supervision of respective food safety officers (FSO’s) and Deputy Director Operations raided over vegetables fields simultaneously in Punjab.
In Lahore, sewerage, industrial waste and other poisonous water was being used for the cultivation of vegetables. PFA while taking action plugged out area of 260 acres and discarded thousands of mounds of vegetables. Fields crops were discarded in the area of Bibi Sahiba Darbar Gulshan Ravi, Kot Abdul Malik and Kahna with its surrounding villages.
DG Noor ul Amin Mengal stressed the gravity of issue and said that use of vegetable and fruits grown from waste water is extremely fatal to human health.
He told that the PFA had already informed farmers to eliminate this trend of irrigating vegetables using water contaminated with factories wastes and sewerage water, and were now putting their foot down.
Source: pakonserver.net
