CONSUMPTION OF FORMALIN IN INDUSTRIES OF PAKISTAN: NESTLE: Nestl has lion's share in packaged (Ultra testing see table below).

Formalin is a High Temperature) UHT milk and bottled dangerous chemical, which has serious water industries of Pakistan. Pakistanis have implications on human health and is traditionally been buying open milk from considered a carcinogen. local vendors and consuming it after pasteurizing it at home. Nestle in early 1980s Milk is a highly perishable commodity, got into the country and developed a market which shall be used within shortest possible for packaged UHT milk. There are now time. Pakistan's traditional milk supply many packaged UHT milk brands in the system had ensured that it is consumed while country competing with each other though fresh. An attempt to industrialize this sector Nestle brands enjoy the advantages of being in 1960s failed miserably as it relied on the pioneer. Pasteurizing milk and maintaining its temperature at 4C till consumption. This did Nestl claims that it markets pure milk, not suit the country's climate where aseptically packaged in the perfect hygienic temperature may rise to 48C in summer. conditions. The company buys milk from the High wastage rates made the industry local farmers at dirt cheap prices and in its unviable. Nestle in early 1980s came to the advertisement campaigns ridicules and country with a different technological degrades the traditional milk distribution 'solution'. It brought Ultra Heat Treatment system of the country. It has invested and TetraPak paper cartons. It built its millions in its aggressive media ventures for feasibility on the expectation that UHT milk convincing common consumers to stop will remain safe in TetraPak for a time good buying milk from traditional chains on the enough to set a profitable chain of supply. grounds that it is unhygienic and unfit for Many experts believe that this technology human consumption. works well only in theory and the high rate of spoiled milk returned from market still TheNetwork for Consumer Protection in haunts the financial planners. Pakistan decided to put their claim to test. We carefully collected samples of all the Formalin is a chemical normally used to brands and got these tested in a distinguished preserve dead bodies. Formalin has many and reputed government laboratory, which negative impacts on human health. If it uses the acknowledged scientific becomes part of food, it turns into formic methodology for product testing. The results acid in human body and increases acidity were horrible. level. More intake of formalin can cause breathing problems, coma and even death. Almost all the companies including Nestl US Environment Protection Agency and use formalin as preservative in their products International Agency for Research on Cancer (with the exceptions of Skims milk of Haleeb count formalin as one of the cancer-causing and open milk) to prolong shelf life of thei THE PLASTIC RESIN INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN:
The plastic resin industry produces resins which are further treated in plastics processing facilities and sold largely to the building and construction, packaging and consumer markets. Plastic resins are generally categorized into two types: thermoplastics and thermosets. Globally, thermoplastic resin dominate plastic resin sales and production Pakistan possesses a narrow petrochemical base producing limited number of polymers including Polystyrene (PS), Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and Urea/Melamine Formaldehyde. An attempt to set up the first PVC plant in Pakistan was made by the Federal Chemicals and Ceramics Corporation Limited (FCCCL)

when it planned to set up a 20,000 tons per annum capacity plant in Kala Shah Kaku way back in 1994. This plant, unfortunately, did not come online. Later in 1999, Engro Chemicals through a joint venture with Japanese company set up the first PVC plant in Pakistan. At present, no facilities for the production of two basic polymers polyethylene and polypropylene exist in the country with the result that these two constitute the bulk of Pakistan plastic resins imports. Import of PE and PP during 2009 stood at 0.424 tons valuing USD 700 million constituting 76 per cent of total plastics raw material imports. Pakistan annual consumption of plastic resins is over one million tons and demand may further grow on the back of new developments in plastic technologies and a rapidly expanding market for plastics due to its wider use and application in the building and construction, transportation, packaging, electrical and electronics, furniture and furnishings and household appliances industries. Plastics raw material production in Pakistan is at low scale and does not meet the required demand. Presently, the total combined annual production capacity of four leading plastic resins producers stands at a little over 0.5 million tons while Pakistan total imports of all plastics raw material, as per Trade Map data, reached 0.525 million tons valuing USD 913 million in 2009. Pakistan was meeting its entire plastics raw material needs through imports till 1994. Pakistan has now started exporting PVC, PET resin and Polystyrene on a limited scale to Turkey, UAE, Italy, South Africa and Iran. Total exports of these three polymers stood at USD 176 million. Table below depicts leading plastic resins manufacturers covering their products and production capacities: Plastics Raw Material Production in Pakistan Company Gatron Industries Engro Asahi Polymers Pak Petro Chemicals Dynea Pakistan Ltd. Product PET PVC HIPS & PS Methanol Urea Melamine Capacity 120,000 Tons 100,000 Tons 34,000 Tons 34,000 Tons