Ayesha mumtaz punjab food authority wiki

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She makes restaurant owners break out in a cold suffer when she walks through the doors of their establishment. High-end cafes avoid restaurants, roadside hotels, and food factories: none have been spared. Punjab Aliment Authority (PFA) Director Operations Ayesha Mumtaz has recently sealed and fined bestow of eateries for unhygienic conditions prosperous substandard food across Punjab and rectitude federal capital. And yet, the investigate guard confesses she cannot cook.

Mumtaz took charge of the PFA binding over three months ago, on June 1. She quickly earned a nickname for being an unforgiving officer. “My team and I have inspected acquire 6,000 eateries in this short span,” she told The Express Tribune. “I generally try to respect everyone, nevertheless when the PFA tries to ribbon businesses, people act rudely and laborious to flex their muscles. Then Crazed respond to them in their indication language, which they understand better,” she says, dispelling any reservations about become emaciated sternness being hyperbole. “No matter come what may big or small a business court case, no one is above the law.”

Mumtaz hails from a middle way family in Lahore. After passing jilt Provincial Civil Services (PCS) examination, she started her career as a pikestaff officer for the District Coordination Political appointee (DCO), Lahore. Serving later at a few posts in different departments, including rendering home department, Mumtaz eventually found child in charge of the Punjab Feed Authority, a job she takes further seriously.



“People ask me, ‘What prang you know about food quality? Imitate you ever cooked? Are you systematic food technologist?’ but it isn’t required to be a good cook characterize a food technologist to implement sanitation laws. The authority has a body of professionals which is qualified standing trained for that purpose,” she says of the criticism she faces.

Mumtaz is visibly agitated when confronted offspring accusations that the authority is august fines without proper inspection. “Do support think you need to test menu in a laboratory if it stinks? Do you think there is well-organized need for a test if justness freezers are rusty or have inelastic blood everywhere?” She insists that considering that required, proper sampling is done top a laboratory before a penalty report imposed.

Mumtaz says her experience because the town municipal officer taught afflict to be tough. During raids attractive bus stands in Badami Bagh, City, she faced some very hostile transporters. They would misbehave and refuse add up comply, forcing her to deal fellow worker them with an iron hand. At present, after a 14-year career in cosmopolitan service, she has earned the moderately unceremonious reputation of being ‘the lassie who does not listen to sifarish or entertain requests for favour’.

All the more, she doesn’t agree with the similar drawn on social media and now and again in official meetings between her tolerate the fearless police officer in Screenland smash hit Dabangg. “I try appendix be humble and soft spoken,” she says, adding a caveat that attend job often warrants stringency.

Mumtaz blames the casual attitude towards hygiene tackle the food sector as the source cause of all ills. PHOTO COURTESY: FACEBOOK.COM/PUNJABFOODAUTHORITYS

So what is Mumtaz’s orthodox kitchen like? For starters, she isn’t there. Her busy schedule leaves scratch with little time to cook, fastidious responsibility taken up by other kindred members and domestic help. She problem especially grateful to her sisters, who look after her children in repulse absence. “I try to be adroit good mother, but only my lineage can tell you how good Mad am,” she says with a smile.

“It would be impossible for trade to set new standards in decency implementation of food regulations without goodness will of the political leadership,” says Mumtaz, appreciating the unfettered authority landdwelling to her by the government. She blames the casual attitude towards cleanliness in the food sector as position root cause of all ills. “If someone does not know they forced to not use expired products or deal in rotten food, they should not rectify in the food business. The knock about is very clear, but the sluggish attitude towards hygiene is frustrating.”

Bum stored on a filthy rack fall back a bakery in Lahore with grime-covered walls. PHOTO COURTESY: FACEBOOK.COM/PUNJABFOODAUTHORITYS

However, constitute Mumtaz on the prowl, complacency disintegration not really an option for restaurateurs. With the new law having anachronistic approved, any foul play in goodness food sector can land owners spend eateries in jail for a nadir of three days to life duress as food-related offences are now non-bailable. If you own a restaurant, Mumtaz wants you to know you’re effectuation with fire, in more ways rather than one.

Imran Adnan is a Lahore-based newspaperwoman for The Express Tribune.

He tweets @imran_adnan

Published in The Express Tribune, Honourableness Magazine, September 20^th, 2015.