The licence of PSQCA Control Centre (QCC), Lahore, expired in July 2019. Photo courtesy PSQCA website
ISLAMABAD: Seven out of nine labs and technical offices of the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) do not have valid operating licences.
Details posted on the website of the Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC) show that the Food Testing Laboratory PSQCA in Karachi and the Technical Services Centre (TSC)-PSQCA in Lahore enjoy validity of their licences up to May 2022 and November 2021, respectively.
The licence of PSQCA Control Centre (QCC), Lahore, expired in July 2019. The operating licences of Sugar Testing Lab, Quality Control Centre, Karachi; Water Testing Lab, PSQCA, Karachi; Oil & Fat Testing Lab, Quality Control Centre PSQCA, Karachi; Microbiological Laboratory PSQCA, Karachi; and the Building Material Testing Lab, PSQCA, Karachi, expired in July 2020. The operating licence of PSQCA Standards Development Centre (SDC)-Conformity Assessm
Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) on Thursday identified 22 brands of bottled water as unsafe for human consumption. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) on Thursday identified 22 brands of bottled water as unsafe for human consumption.
The government, through the Ministry of Science and Technology has assigned the task to the PCRWR for quarterly monitoring of bottled or mineral water brands and publicising the results in the best interest of public health.
For the last quarter from April to June, 180 samples of mineral or bottled water brands were collected from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Sargodha, Sialkot, Sahiwal, Bahawalpur, D.G. Khan, Mianwali, Karachi, Tandojam, Badin, Quetta, Loralai, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit. Comparison of test results with permissible limits of Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) revealed that 22 brands were not safe for drink
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THIS refers to the report ‘Punjab-Sindh dispute over water deepens’ (June 13). The water crisis in Sindh, though seemingly political, has once again reminded the stark realities about the water issues the country has been facing since long, which may shortly transform to catastrophic situation if not addressed urgently and effectively.
The availability and quality of water, or lack of it, in Pakistan has various dimensions. The per capita water availability has been decreasing rapidly in recent years, having reached currently an alarming level of 908 cubic meters that is even below the water scarcity level of 1,000 cubic meters, or 1,000,000 litres.
This means Pakistan is already a water-scarce country. Only 35 per cent of the population has access to clean drinking water. Sadly, water accessibility has been declining persistently, in particular since 2005 on a year-on-year basis. The situation is compounded as the available drinking water is unsafe, specifically in urban and
Tip of the tax loss iceberg
June 29, 2021
LAHORE: Over Rs40 billion estimated losses to exchequer by smuggled tobacco products is just tip of the iceberg compared to damage dealt by myriad of other contrabands coming into the country.
It is regrettable that no scientific evaluation has been done on losses caused by smuggling. Haroon Akhtar Khan the former adviser on revenue to Nawaz Sharif stated at Mir Khalilur Rehman Society seminar in 2015 that smuggled goods worth $9 billion are imported annually in Pakistan.
He said that this denies the government of Pakistan of revenues worth Rs300 billion. However at the same seminar Ramzan Bhatti a senior Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) official, who just retired, estimated that smuggled goods worth $15 to $20 billion enter Pakistani market annually.