PSQCA raids super stores, seizes products of 45 illegal brands

LAHORE (HRNW) Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA), initiating crackdown against illegal, un-registered and sub-standard cosmetics, food and other items, seized huge quantity of stock of more than 45 brands from super stores on Friday.

The department also served warning notices to two super stores for keeping and selling products of illegal brands while stock of two renowned foam and tea brands was also seized over having no CM-License, besides stopping their production. According to a spokesman of the PSQCA, on direction of Federal Minister for Science and Technology Ch. Fawad Hussain, the Director General PSQCA Adul Aleem Memon gave task to Director SDC-CA Lahore Zone Muhammad Yaseen Akhtar, on which special teams initiated market surveillance and raided the super stores of the provincial capital.

The teams found, two super stores were selling products including cooking oil, Ghee, toilet soap, tooth paste, shampoo, detergents, vinegar, butter, honey, jams, hair color and skin creams of illegal and un-registered companies. On which, the officers seized huge quantity of more than 45 illegal brands and sent samples to laboratory for testing. Moeover, the teams also seized stock of renowned foam and tea brand, stopping them for production over having no PSQCA license while a water unit was also sealed in Okara. Director General Abdul Aleem Memon has said that storage and sale of un-registered brands is illegal and no leniency would be given to illegal brands and store owners should sale only products registered with the PSQCA otherwise stock would be seized, he added. He said that action against illegal and sub-standards items would remain continue without any discrimination.