SFA reiterates ban on unhealthy snacks in schools
IV Report KARACHI: The Sindh Food Authority (SFA) has reminded the school education and college education departments of Sindh of a 2018 notification banning the sale of soft drinks, energy drinks, and coloured, flavored snacks within and around educational institutions across the province. According to a source in the provincial food watchdog, letters on the subject of consumption of reported harmful drinks and snacks among students at schools and colleges have been sent earlier too, but to no avail. “Hierarchies in SFA have decided now to get the restriction notification enforced in letter and spirit in the larger interest of students’ health,” an official said, sharing the latest round of intimation and awareness will be followed by on-ground actions, including imposition of penalties or closure of canteen and carts found indulged in the sale of unwanted eatable to students. The SFA Director General Asif Jan Siddiqi, in his letter of April 10 to secretaries of the two educatio...