Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 10: The State Food & Drugs Testing Laboratories have been upgraded both at Jammu and Srinagar at the estimated cost of Rs 21 crores under Centre sponsored scheme / State funds to ensure quality of food and drugs available in the market.
According to Deputy Commissioner, Food Safety ( Jammu Division), Sanjeev Kumar, under the said scheme, the Labs have been upgraded with latest high end equipments. All the machinery/ equipments have been installed, commissioned and made fully functional for utility.
The suppliers have deputed the experts for training of lab staff and in the process of preparation of protocol / method validation for different items / tests. The department simultaneously is in the process of NABL accreditation – National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration which is likely to be completed by December 2019.
With the commissioning of state of the art facility in these testing Labs, the department will be in position to conduct Microbiological contaminants, heavy metals, pesticide residue , anti-biotic residue in all food items.
Commissioner, Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), J&K, Vinod Sharma, visited the Jammu Lab and inspected new machinery and equipments recently installed and took a detailed review of the functioning and progress in the matter of mandatory NABL accreditation so that laboratories get legal entity post March 2020 as the present reorganization granted to Food Testing Labs is provisional and valid up to March 2020. He also visited the under construction building to the estimated cost of Rs 3 crores for housing Microbiological section for Drugs Testing Labs and establishment of modern library.
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