METRO CASH AND CARRY PAKISTAN COLLABORATES WITH PUNJAB FOOD AUTHORITY ON ITS SCHOOL OF HYGIENE

METRO CASH AND CARRY PAKISTAN COLLABORATES WITH PUNJAB FOOD AUTHORITY ON ITS SCHOOL OF HYGIENE

KARACHI: METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan and Punjab Food Authority recently concluded a month long successful collaboration on the School of Hygiene Training program, where METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan provided its team of Quality Assurance experts that served as the Master Trainers at the designated School, as well as over 1000 sets of aprons and hygiene caps for the participants.

To conclude this one month collaboration program, a closing meeting was organized at PFA head office between METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan and PFA representatives headed by Director General Punjab Food Authority (PFA) Mr. Noor-Ul-Amin Mengal and Mr. Marek Minkiewicz Managing Director METRO Cash and Carry Pakistan.  Mr. Marek Minkiewicz appreciated the DG PFA for his efforts on this long term sustainable initiative “School of Hygiene for food handlers” while Mr. Noor-Ul-Amin Mengal also appreciated the support offered by METRO Management on appointing competent expert team as master trainer and the commitment for making this initiative successful.

During the month long training program 1400 food handlers from different hotels, restaurants, caterers, and small & medium food business organizations were trained in 8 batches at each divisional PFA school. Along with food handlers the internally recruited PFA master trainers were also trained at a level where they can independently run these training schools.

Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has commenced training schools in 5 major cities of Punjab province which are aimed at imparting training to people attached with food business.. This collaboration is aimed at developing training module followed by execution and effectiveness evaluation by METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan experts for food handlers as well as PFA officials on Level-I food safety program.