SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 06: Commissioner Food Safety J&K
Dr. Abdul Kabir Dar today convened a meeting to review the process of
commissioning and functioning Food Testing Laboratories in the State.
During the meeting, Commissioner was apprised about the work done and
achievements of the Food Testing Laboratories during the last four months. It
was informed that in 1125 samples have been tested out of which 764 have been
found to be confirming the Standards and 361 samples have been found
non-conforming.
Public Analyst and Food Analysts were directed to submit the action
taken reports regularly and periodically and adhere to Good Laboratory
Practices for credible and efficient results and issue the analytical reports
and results of the legal as well as surveillance samples in a time-bound manner
as mandated in the FSS Act, 2006 and Rules & Regulations made hereunder.
Commissioner impressed
upon the concerned Food Analysts and Public Analyst for optimum use of state of
art food laboratory and make both the food testing laboratories more vibrant in
terms of scope of food testing done on the legal as well as surveillance
samples.
All the concerned stakeholders including Public Analyst, Food Analysts
and authorised Suppliers of state of the art equipments and Assistant Engineer
Mechanical Engineering Department Srinagar were impressed to speed up the
process and frame a timeline for installation and validation of these
equipments meant for detection and quantification of adulterants, pesticide
residues, antibiotics, heavy metals, aflatoxins and trans-fats.
He directed the concerned to dispose of the junk lying around the
erstwhile Forensic Science Laboratory building and submit the Detailed Project
Report to the Commissionerate of Food Safety for approval.
The meeting was attended by Controller Drugs and Food control Organization
J&K Lotika Khajuria, Assistant Commissioner Food Safety HQ, Administrative
Officer Drugs & Food Control Organization J&K, Assistant Controller
Food HQ, Assistant Engineer MED Srinagar, Food Analysts Kashmir Province,
Public Analyst Public Health Laboratory Jammu/Kashmir and authorized
representatives of the supplying company.
Later, Commissioner also visited various sections viz, Biochemistry,
Microbiology and took stock of the state of art analytical equipment section of
Public Health Laboratory, Srinagar and took review of the status of High
End equipments including HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), GCMS-MS
(Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy), LCMS-MS (Liquid Chromatography- Mass
Spectroscopy) and ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy) that
are under installation process.
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