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| April 19, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 01, 1428 |
90pc cooking oils, ghee lack vitamins
ISLAMABAD, April 18: An increasing quantity of inferior quality and unhygienic cooking oil and ghee was being sold in the country due to the negligence of the Standard Quality Control Department.
According to sources, despite the claims of cooking oil manufacturing companies that their products contain vitamins A and D, 90 per cent ghee and cooking oil available in the market, was without these two vitamins, while in the remaining 10 per cent these were in inadequate quantities that did not meet international standards.
According to the Food Act, companies manufacturing ghee and cooking oil were bound to include vitamins A and D in a proportion of 33 IU per gram, according to Pakistan Pure Food Act and 15,000 IU per pound, according to the international standards that ought to be observed in the preparation of ghee and cooking oil.
Sources further said it was the responsibility of the department of Standard Quality Control to check the quality of cooking oil but the department never undertook any campaign to check whether the cooking oil being sold in the market, was in accordance with international standards or not.— Onlin e
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