ISLAMABAD: While the country is forced to import wheat for meeting the shortage, it is wasting up to 770,000 tonnes of wheat flour annually for non-implementation of quality sacks. According to a letter of Pakistan Polypropylene Woven Sack Manufacturers sent to the Ministry of Industries and Production, the huge quantity of wheat flour was being wasted for not using the quality sacks set by Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA). As a mandatory certification item, PSQCA, through an SRO, has set a standard of food grade polypropylene laminated sacks for supply of wheat flour in the country. The letter highlighted that despite high prices of wheat flour in the country between three to five percent of it is wasted during handling as the flour leaks through the low quality woven bags. Earlier the laminated polypropylene woven sack manufacturers had also asked EPA to intervene over the subject and stop the usage of recycled material that contains exposures to health hazards.

Source: Pakistan Today November 21, 2020 18:56 UTC