300-kg spices seized, factory sealed

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FAISALABAD:The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) sealed a food factory after seizing more than 300-kilogram (kg) unhygienic and spurious spices, here on Sunday.

A spokesman for the PFA said that Deputy Director Operations Ammar Javaid conducted a raid at a food factory at Jhang Road and found heavy quantity of spurious spices, which were being packed in a unhygienic conditions.

The team seized spurious spices as well as 7-kg unapproved labeling material. The PFA deputy director also sealed the factory and discarded the seized material, in addition to imposing Rs 100,000 fine on the factory owner, the spokesman added.

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