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KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar has ordered milk brands to clearly write on packs that tea whitener is not milk.

While hearing a human rights application relating to deficiencies in the production, processing and packing of packed milk and environmental pollution in the province, Chief Justice Nisar ordered the milk companies to clearly mention the difference of tea whitener and milk.

“We are here for the people of Karachi,” Chief Justice Nisar remarked during the hearing, adding that the court will improve Sindh’s situation as it did in Punjab.

Referring to the feed given to chickens at poultry farms, the chief justice said the harmful feed is having an adverse effect on human health.

He added that if one sees the way the chicken feed is made, “you would never eat chicken again”.

The chief justice ordered the chief secretary to direct the drug inspector to conduct market raids and confiscate injections used to enhance milk production in cows by infusing hormones.

He also ordered the Federal Investigation Agency and the drug inspector to evaluate the stocks of injection with distributors and retailers.

During the hearing, representatives of milk companies submitted their response to the court. They stated that milk and tea whiteners are separate things, as tea whiteners are made from milk.

To this, the chief justice remarked that “tea whiteners are not milk in any sense”.

“You have to give in writing, through advertisements on TV and print, that this is not milk,” he observed and gave the companies four weeks to ensure the warning is printed on packets.

He added that reputable brands are also selling substandard milk.

The chief justice also ordered to take Rs 50,000 from all milk companies and have their product’s tested by Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR).

The PCSIR was also directed to submit its report in two weeks. The court also directed authorities concerned to seize entire stock of any company whose milk is found to be substandard.

Published in Daily Times, January 15^th 2018.