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KHALID HASNAIN — PUBLISHED about 5 hours ago
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LAHORE: It is a sight to see: the staffers of a roadside food vendor in Gulberg Main Market are wearing chef caps, gloves and aprons.
They say they have started following cleanliness and hygiene standards and the certain basic standards of ISO-22000 after they were inspected by the food safety officers of the Punjab Food Authority (PFA).
Under rules, the staff of an eatery need to wear chef caps and gloves, have their nails clipped and keep their medical fitness certificates. Any violation of the provision results in fine and closure of the eatery.
“In fact, we were never educated to adopt such standards,” says Siddique, cook at Gulberg’s main market eatery.
He said that once a PFA team inspected their point and fined them for violations, their owner got the message. After that, the management followed the standards and provided us caps, gloves and aprons.
Muhammad Anwar runs a small restaurant in Johar Town. He told Dawn he enforced hygiene standards at his eatery after several media reports of PFA raids.
“I took up the matter very seriously after I learnt from media reports that PFA teams don’t spare even food outlets of international chains,” he said.
“I got my chefs, waiters and dishwashers examined medically and got their medical fitness certificates,” he added.
The PFA follows ISO-22000 as such standards are missing in the Punjab Pure Food Ordinance of 1960 and its amended version of 2001.
The Punjab Law Department and PFA are working on an amended draft of the law.
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KHALID HASNAIN — PUBLISHED about 5 hours ago
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LAHORE: It is a sight to see: the staffers of a roadside food vendor in Gulberg Main Market are wearing chef caps, gloves and aprons.
They say they have started following cleanliness and hygiene standards and the certain basic standards of ISO-22000 after they were inspected by the food safety officers of the Punjab Food Authority (PFA).
Under rules, the staff of an eatery need to wear chef caps and gloves, have their nails clipped and keep their medical fitness certificates. Any violation of the provision results in fine and closure of the eatery.
“In fact, we were never educated to adopt such standards,” says Siddique, cook at Gulberg’s main market eatery.
He said that once a PFA team inspected their point and fined them for violations, their owner got the message. After that, the management followed the standards and provided us caps, gloves and aprons.
Muhammad Anwar runs a small restaurant in Johar Town. He told Dawn he enforced hygiene standards at his eatery after several media reports of PFA raids.
“I took up the matter very seriously after I learnt from media reports that PFA teams don’t spare even food outlets of international chains,” he said.
“I got my chefs, waiters and dishwashers examined medically and got their medical fitness certificates,” he added.
The PFA follows ISO-22000 as such standards are missing in the Punjab Pure Food Ordinance of 1960 and its amended version of 2001.
The Punjab Law Department and PFA are working on an amended draft of the law.
@Horus @rockstar08 @WAJsal @Junaid B @Pomegranate @Color_Less_Sky @Zarvan @xyxmt @SipahSalar @Bratva @Stealth @Rashid Mahmood
@syedali73 @Leader @DESERT FIGHTER @Jazzbot @Spring Onion, @chauvunist,
@Pakistan Shaheen @karakoram, @syedali73 @rockstar08 @haviZsultan @Gufi @Muhammad Omar @graphican @Gazi @Donatello @Hyperion @Pak_Sher @Sage
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