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UNIVERSITY SERVICES
DIRECTORATEOFQUALITYOPERATIONLAB
ISO-17025 Accreditated Lab
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Quality of food of animal origin has been a main concern world over. On account of poor knowledge,
lack of sophisticated equipment and techniques, non-availability of suitable labs, no efforts to improve
the quality of the food in Pakistan had been made in the past. It is a bare fact that animals and plants
are constantly exposed to a variety of potentially harmful chemicals / bio-chemicals and pathogens in
the polluted environment. There has been an indiscriminate practice of spraying of insecticides on
cotton and rice crops. Residues of these insecticides are transferred to animal or poultry through
consumption of feed containing chemically contaminated cotton seed cake and the rice. Similarly, there
is contamination of disinfectants, antibiotics, mycotoxins etc., in the feed of poultry and dairy animals
and these residues are excreted in milk, meat or eggs and subsequently enter in our food chain. These
very chemical or biological toxins or pathogens are posing serious human health hazards. Some effects
such as death, acute respiratory illness, skin rashes, toxic hepatitis are apparently visible while other
effects remain hidden and express themselves later in the form of immuno-suppression,
reproductive/fetal abnormalities, teratogenic, mutagenic/ carcinogenic modalities. Quality Operations