Food safety lab at Pathanamthitta gets infrastructure upgrade

The long-awaited modernisation of the Food Safety Laboratory astatine Pathanamthitta has yet go a reality, with the constitution of a caller state-of-the-art gathering afloat funded by the State government. The upgraded installation was inaugurated by Health Minister Veena George present connected Tuesday.

Following a 1997 High Court directive to trial offerings and materials utilized during the Mandalam-Makaravilakku festival, the district-level nutrient investigating laboratory was acceptable up present successful 1998. Until recently, it had facilities lone for preliminary investigating of drinking h2o and nutrient samples.

The laboratory has present been expanded and upgraded with precocious investigating systems astatine a outgo of ₹3 crore. The caller installation is equipped with broad infrastructure dispersed crossed 3 floors. The crushed level houses a illustration receiving and retention section, office, chemic retention room, laboratory, unit country and nutrient investigation rooms. The archetypal level includes an instrumentation room, illustration mentation country and unit room, portion the 2nd level features dedicated spaces for a h2o lab, nutrient lab, equilibrium country and abstraction for a microbiology lab.

To fortify its operations, the authorities has sanctioned 10 further unit positions, isolated from the existing three, and installed modern instrumentality to heighten investigating accuracy and efficiency.

Deputy Speaker Chittayam Gopakumar presided implicit the function.