Director General Punjab Food Authority (PFA) Capt Rtd Muhammad Usman preside over the seminar while Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha, Dr Sana Ullah Iqbal and many guest speakers from public private sector organization including Senior Nutritionist from Pakistan Nutritionist and Dietitians Society Ms Ghazala Pervez Zaman, Quality Assurance Manager Metro Cash & Carry Sagar Mehmood ,Provicial Manager Food Fortification Programme Dr Amber Elahi and a large number of students from different institutions and faculty members were present.
Speaking on the occasion, DG Usman spoke about the role of Punjab Food Authority in ensuring food safety and security in Punjab. He said hygiene and adulteration is the priority of PFA and with the consultancy and help of experts/scientists Punjab Food Authority working actively to control adulteration in food items on zero tolerance in all over the Punjab. He mentioned about the different types of adulteration and labeling fraud with consumer in various food items in the form of packed milk, energy drinks, cooking oil and tea whitener/ dry powder. He said it is not the aim of PFA to seal the business of peoples rather working for the improving of business for the benefit of consumer to providing them safe and high quality food. He also lauded the role of UVAS for the development of livestock sector and also for the support of minimum pasteurization law. DG Usman lauded the performance of the students for making posters to apply their knowledge in preparing different posters related to nutrition.
Addressing the audience, Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha said that it is our responsibility to create awareness among peoples about the pure high quality food and adulterated food by utilize our knowledge and skills. He said knowledge and research is the key to curb to control malnutrition issues in Pakistan.
In seminar, guest speakers delivered their lecture to participants on different topics, Mr Sager Mahmood spoke about role of food industry in addressing food security and hidden hunger while Ms Ghazala Pervez Zaman delivered her lecture on strategies to combat hidden hunger and malnutrition at household level and Dr Amber Elahi spoke about food fortification programme and its effort to address hidden hunger in Pakistan.
At the end of seminar DG Usman along with Prof Pasha distributed cash prizes among the winners of poster contest. In poster contest Hiba Asif from (UVAS) won the 1st position, Fatima Khalid (UVAS) got 2nd position while Minahil from Kinnaird Collage got 3rd position.
UVAS Business School got 3rd Position in DICE Mega event held at Sukkar IBA
LAHORE (16-10-18): The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore team of BBA (Hons) stood 3rd position in DICE Mega Event of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2018, held at Sukkur IBA. Over 65 Universities (from public and private sector) participated in this contest with more than 200 projects under four categories. UVAS team won 3rd prize in category C (Arts, Humanities, Business and Social Sciences) with a shield and cash award of PKR 25,000. UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha lauded the performance of UVAS students and congratulated them for their achievement.
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