LAHORE: Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA)’s newly established fertiliser laboratory set up in Quality Control Centre was inaugurated here on Wednesday.

As per the Statuary Regulatory Order released by Minister of Science and Technology in 2020, another 61 food and non-food items including fertiliser products inducted in PSQCA’s mandatory list, now it is the first lab which would examine all the fertiliser products including SSP, BOP, Urea, DAP etc.

Inaugurating the laboratory, DG Zainul Abedin said that all the labs would be upgraded soon for ensuring quality and standards of Pakistani products to compete in international markets.

Director Standard Development Centre Dr Muhammad Rizwan and Director Quality Control Centre Khurram Mateen briefed the DG about performance of their sections and infrastructural renovation.

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