The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) will conduct a food safety workshop between February 6 and 17, to analyse veterinary drug residues and contaminant in foods and feeds.
Organised under the theme: ‘interregional technical meeting on optimization, harmonization and validation of radio receptor assay’, the workshop will be held at the UNBS headquarters Standards House, Bweyogerere, on the outskirts of Kampala city.
Aziz Mukota, Head of UNBS Chemistry Laboratory and ‘Counterpart Member’ will lead the Ugandan team and will also be the focal point person during the workshop, whose matrices will include tissue/meat, eggs, milk, fish and feed.
The technical meeting, to be held under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in cooperation with the Government of Uganda, will be under the broader technical cooperation project aimed at ‘improving food safety through the creation of an interregional network that produces reliable scientific data using nuclear and isotopic techniques.’
The project aims at equipping several member state laboratories with unique capabilities to gather residue occurrence data, working as a group that can be useful in standards setting.
Countries from various regions will be involved in laboratory practical exercises and group discussions as well as data processing and reporting.
The countries will include among others Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Chile, Costa Rica, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Singapore and Tanzania.
