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Food Quality & Nutrition
What are
the major benefits of food quality and grain testing?
Ans. Food and grain testing helps in:
1. assessing the physico chemical quality of the food commodities.
2. detecting the hazardous substances in food and food products.
3. grading of different foods based on physico chemical properties.
4. Facilitate export of food commodities.
5. Testing the imported foods items and grains according to national and
international standards.
How can
quality testing help improve the food standards?
Ans. food and grain testing indicates weather foods are according
to the specific standards or not. Food quality testing imposes a check on
growers, public and private sector dealers involved in import/export of food
commodities and policy makers, hence the food quality standards improve.
Which are the major
horticulture crops, cereal commodities and products being tested/analyzed by
PARC?
Ans. Horticultural crops: citrus, mango, guava, apricot, dates and
other fruits and vegetables. Cereal grains and legumes: wheat, rice, barley,
lentil, chickpea, mung, mash, soybean.
What is the response
from public and private sectors for food quality and grain testing?
Ans. People are now more quality conscious, therefore with the
growing demand of implementation of standards and quality control, there is an
increasing trend of food quality testing by public as well as private sector.
What are the major
recommendations to promote quality food and grain testing services in Pakistan?
Ans.
Resource Person
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Mr.
Nouman Rashid Siddiquei (SO) |
[Last updated: 27 November, 2006]
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