MINGORA: Following public complaints, the district administration, Swat, filed cases against 15 shopkeepers for selling adulterated milk and sealed four shops in a crackdown on milk dealers here on Thursday.

Additional assistant commissioner, Mingora, Jan Alam told this scribe that the district had no milk testing laboratory so the deputy commissioner, Swat, requested the DG livestock to send a team from Peshawar.

“The DG livestock sent the mobile laboratory for testing milk and an expert team,” he said, adding that he along with the district food controller and visiting team checked 20 milk shops and found chemicals in the milk of four shops while water added milk was found in 11 shops.

Mr Alam said that FIRs were registered against 15 shopkeepers. He said that shops where chemicals were found in milk had been sealed.

Dr Mohammad Jamal, who came with the mobile laboratory from Peshawar, said that formalin was found in a large quantity of milk which was used for long survival of milk, but it was very toxic for human kidney and liver. “About 40 per cent water was also found in the milk of several shops,” he said.

District director livestock Dr Bakht Alam said that chemicals mixed in milk could cause diseases like cancer and hepatitis.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2017