Daily Times

TIMERGARA: The Lower Dir Food Department on Wednesday sealed three cooking oil outlets allegedly preparing substandard oil with unhealthy elements. After getting complaints from the public, a team of food department officials raided markets on Timergara Bypass Road. The team sealed three cooking oil outlets and registered cases against the owners.

Several liters of substandard cooking oil and animals’ waste were also recovered from the factories. District Food Controller Shahabuddin said that chicken and animals’ waste, especially fur and intestines, were being used to manufacture the product. He said the oil was being supplied to hotels in the city for preparing ‘kabab’, pakora and roasting. He said the government had already banned sale of such oil as it contained substances injurious to health.

The food authority directed the tehsil municipality staff to properly dispose of animals’ waste so that it could not be misused by selfish elements. Meanwhile, District Health Officer Dr Shaukat Ali has said that the fresh recruitment of 92 male and female doctors in the district would overcome staff shortage in the District Headquarter Hospital. He said this while addressing a certificate distribution ceremony as chief guest at the category-D hospital Talash on Wednesday.