{"id":17339,"date":"2026-07-12T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/12\/seven-tons-expired-food-medicine-destroyed-kapisa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:15:22","slug":"seven-tons-expired-food-medicine-destroyed-kapisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/12\/seven-tons-expired-food-medicine-destroyed-kapisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Tons of Expired Food and Medicine Destroyed in Kapisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate of Industry and Commerce in Kapisa has announced the destruction of seven tons of expired and low-quality food and medicine. These items were collected from various districts across the province. The destruction took place by burning in the presence of local Taliban officials and members of the responsible commission.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, these goods had been gathered over the past month from different districts of Kapisa. The collection process was part of the activities of a commission aimed at preventing the production and distribution of expired medicines and materials.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Asadullah Sanan, Deputy Governor of Kapisa, spoke at the destruction ceremony, emphasizing that preventing the distribution and sale of expired products can be effective in reducing various diseases. He expressed appreciation for the commission&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Ahmad Zaki Najib, Head of Industrial Parks at the Directorate of Industry and Commerce in Kapisa, urged traders and vendors to refrain from selling low-quality and expired goods that harm public health. He also asked residents to pay close attention to the expiration dates when purchasing food and medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kapisa&#8217;s authorities destroyed seven tons of expired food and medicine to prevent health risks and reduce disease spread in the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}