INDRODUCTION

Quality of food of animal origin has been a main concern and on account of poor knowledge, lack of sophisticated equipments and techniques, non-availability of suitable labs, no efforts to improve the quality of the food in Pakistan had been made. 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 is indiscriminate spray of pesticides on cotton and rice crops. Residues of these pesticides 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 feed of poultry and dairy animals that are excreted in milk, meat or eggs and subsequently enters in our food chain.

OBJECTIVES

Overall aims to establish the laboratory facilities at the university are:

1. To meet the international standards of exports and imports of livestock commodities as defined in the charter of W.T.O.
2. To test the food ingredients of animal and plant origin for national health and security reasons
3. To improve the human and animal health
4. To maintain national standards for human foods of fish, livestock/poultry origins
5. To maintain national standards for human foods of fish, livestock/poultry origins
6. To provide guidelines about the sanitary and phyto-sanitory measures to exporters of livestock or food of animal origins.