Setup food testing labs in Jammu, Srinagar: High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed the state government to initiate process for setting up two food testing labs at Jammu and Srinagar and for procuring mobile food testing vans. A division bench of Justices Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Ali Mohammad Magrey in its orders today observed that it hoped that before the next date, the two laboratories — one at Srinagar and one at Jammu — would be made functional. On May 24, while conceding that the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, had not been implemented…

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