80 percent available milk adulterated? High Court in Action

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Lahore High Court (LHC) Judge Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, while hearing a petition against the supply of adulterated milk, has appointed a senior counsel Shahzad Shaukat as the local commission to inspect the samples of the milk at a food laboratory and report to the court today (Thursday). On Wednesday, the chief analyst of the food laboratory, Lahore – who appeared on court directions – informed the court that the laboratory had no gadget to check adulteration in milk. He said there was a team of skilled persons who manually checked the milk samples.
He said according to data, the Food Department in the last five years had collected 19,718 samples of milk, out of which 17,529 samples were found adulterated.

The counsel relied on a report published in a newspaper on February 4, which stated that dairy farms, milk supplying companies and other sources added various chemical and unhygienic materials in the milk.

The percentage of adulterants includes urea or melamine (30 percent), sub-standard cooking oil (70 percent), powdered water chestnut (40 percent), unhygienic water (50 percent), formalin – a chemical used by doctors to preserve human body – (35 percent), penicillin for enhancing the thickness and fragrance of milk (47 percent), hair removing powder (29 percent), zoonotic pathogens (27 percent), and other adulterants including soda bicarbonate, to improve the taste, and melamine as protein booster.

He asserted that contaminated milk was being sold since the last many years in Pakistan, and nobody seemed to have taken any effective step to supply pure milk, and the respondents seemed to have been unmoved by the consequences. He said melamine had caused kidney stones or kidney failure, especially among infants, which was added to the milk in order to lower the costs.

He requested the supply of such milk be stopped forthwith for human consumption and all such suppliers and corporation be banned immediately. He also requested the court that arrangements should be made to increase the growth of livestock.

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