Efforts on to introduce at least one Mobile Food Lab for every 20 districts: Minister
By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, AUG 09, 2017: WHILE replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, the MoS for Health, Mr Fagan Singh Kulaste, said that presently, there are 219 Food Testing Laboratories [72 labs functioning under the State/Union Territories; 131 National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accredited private laboratories and 16 Referral Laboratories notified by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)] in the country under the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act, 2006, Rules and Regulations made thereunder.
A Scheme for strengthening of State Food Testing labs (atleast one in each state with a provision of 2 labs in large states) and support for Mobile Food labs (one mobile lab for every 20 district with a provision of atleast one mobile lab in each state) has been rolled out by FSSAI withan outlay of Rs. 481.95 Crore. Under the scheme, the State Food Testing Laboratories are under the obligation to attain the NABL Accreditation i.e. International Standards Organization Accreditation (ISO/IEC 17025:2005).
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