Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety and Halal Food Authority has released its Annual Performance Report for 2025, detailing large-scale inspections, enforcement actions, and food testing measures aimed at improving food safety standards across the province.
According to the report, the authority inspected 92,312 food-related businesses during the year and seized and destroyed 413,888 kilograms and litres of substandard and unsafe food items. The enforcement drive covered a wide range of outlets, from grocery stores and bakeries to hotels, restaurants, dairy farms, and food manufacturing units.
To address regulatory violations, the authority issued 7,685 improvement notices and sealed 142 food outlets over serious hygiene breaches. Alongside enforcement, it conducted 89 training sessions and 1,167 awareness sessions to improve compliance among food business operators.
Licensing, inspections, and revenue
During 2025, the authority issued or renewed 40,932 licenses and registered 1,318 food products. Revenue of Rs 253.8 million was generated through licensing, product registration, and fines, contributing to the provincial exchequer.
Inspection activity spanned thousands of outlets, including grocery stores, wholesale dealers, bakeries, dhabas and tea stalls, poultry and fish shops, hotels, dairy shops and farms, fruit and vegetable sellers, meat shops, kebab outlets, and restaurants. Distribution points, snack factories, spice units, fast food outlets, honey shops, and dairy industries were also checked.
The food items destroyed included beverages, meat, spices, chips and snacks, cooking oil and ghee, milk, bakery products, and other consumables deemed unsafe for human consumption.
Testing and special enforcement drives
The report said three large factories producing counterfeit beverages and fake milk were shut down in Pabbi, Nowshera, and the Hattar Industrial Zone in Haripur, with machinery worth millions of rupees confiscated.
At the newly established static provincial food testing laboratory, 2,813 samples were analysed, of which 738 failed quality standards. Mobile food testing laboratories examined a further 14,213 samples across the province, declaring 4,074 of them substandard.
During the year, the authority also launched eight special enforcement campaigns focusing on products such as spices, nimko, chips, bottled water, and on licensing and product registration.
Director General Wasif Saeed said the province’s first Provincial Food Testing Laboratory and Centre for Research had been established on the directives of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He added that most functions of the food authority had now been shifted to a digital system to enhance transparency, efficiency, and service delivery.
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