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Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (Urdu: ماموریہ برائے حقوق صارفین پاکستان), (CRCP) is a rights-based civil initiative registered under the Trust Act, 1882. Established in 1998, CRCP is an independent, non-profit , and non-governmental organization .
Food defense is the protection of food products from intentional contamination or adulteration by biological, chemical, physical, or radiological agents introduced for the purpose of causing harm. It addresses additional concerns including physical, personnel and operational security.
An "incident" of chemical food contamination may be defined as an episodic occurrence of adverse health effects in humans (or animals that might be consumed by humans) following high exposure to particular chemicals, or instances where episodically high concentrations of chemical hazards were detected in the food chain and traced back to a particular event.
An adulterant is caused by the act of adulteration, a practice of secretly mixing a substance with another. Typical substances that are adulterated include but are not limited to food , cosmetics , pharmaceuticals , fuel , or other chemicals , that compromise the safety or effectiveness of the said substance.
In 1998, adulterated mustard oil poisoning in Delhi resulted in widespread dropsy and deaths of 60 people and illness of more than 3000. [1] [2] [3] It was revealed that white oil, a petroleum product, was mixed with edible mustard oil. [4] Sale of mustard in loose quantity was banned by a court order, to prevent more health hazards. [5]
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During the COVID-19 crisis, Saylani Welfare Trust provided free oxygen, food, rescue equipment and other supplies to hospitals and Covid-19 wards in the country. [17] It also introduced mobile phone application and telephone service, where needy families can register themselves to get ration and other essential items.
From 20 April to 8 May 2016, at least 33 people, including five children, died in District Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan, after eating purposely poisoned laddu, a baked confection. [1] Testing of the confectioneries revealed they were laced with the highly toxic insecticide chlorfenapyr. A sweet shop owner, Khalid Mahmood, confessed to mixing the ...