Director General, Punjab Food Authority, Captain (R) Muhammad Usman directed Additional Director General (Technical) Dr. Shahzaib Hasnain to submit a draft for the expansion of Food Safety Laboratories within five days, on Monday.
DG PFA visited Food Testing Laboratories in PFA Headquarters to review the progress of laboratories. He directed staff to follow the standard operations procedures before entering in Food Testing Laboratories. He directed to cover the head, wear a face mask, gloves and shoe covers.
Further, he directed to take steps to decrease the timespan for water sample testing and enhancing water testing capacity from 40 to 100 water samples per day. Moreover, SOPs for collecting the samples from market shall also be reviewed and contamination free sampling will be ensured as per the international standards. He directed the authority to complete the hiring of new staff and machinery as soon as possible. He further directed to produce the ability to conduct laboratory tests of milk, oil, ghee, ketchup, spices and other essential commodities.