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