‘Substandard Food Causes Several Diseases’

MULTAN, (Muzaffargarh.City – 25th Oct, 2016 ) : The people are catching many diseases owing to substandard and adulterated food because some shopkeepers mix impure things in vegetables, spices, fruits and other edibles.

For sensitizing masses on this serious food issue, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA) is working on a project entitled “Adulterated and Malnutrition” in collaboration with HEC.

This was stated by Project Head Prof Hafsa Umer while talking to APP here on Tuesday. She said that they had covered several Government High and Higher Secondary Schools for girls in Multan, Muzaffargarh and Bahalwalpur districts recently.

“Soon, we would train the students specially girls how to detect food adulteration in domestic meals and identification of malnutrition in Rahim Yar Khan district,” she said. In Muzaffargarh districts, Hafsa informed that they trained students at Govt Higher Secondary school (HSS) for Girls, Baseera, Govt HSS for Girls Jatoi, Govt HSS for Girls Shah Jamal, Govt HSS for Girls Chagra and Govt HSS for Girls Karamdad Qureshi in last week.