Need for knowledge based society stressed

KARACHI : There is a need for a knowledge-based society in order to enable the country meet the challenges, it faces these days.This was stressed by the Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University, Prof. Dr. Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui while speaking at the concluding session of the Food Safety Training Course organized at the University of Karachi.The organizers said on Tuesday that the three day Food Safety moot on Food Hygiene Systems (Good Manufacturing Practices and Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures) and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) was held under the joint auspices of the University of Karachi and Pakistan Society for Microbiology.The objective was to train Pakistani food safety/quality control officers to enable them to provide safer, more wholesome food for the people of Pakistan and to permit Pakistani food products to be exported to high value international markets in compliance to WTO regulations and international trade requirements. This capacity building programme for academia and industry representatives had been developed under the Trilateral Commission’s Trade Corridors Working Group consisting of Pakistan, USA and USDA -Foreign Agriculture Service. The Vice-Chancellor urged the participants of the training course to disseminate the knowledge they had gained regarding the food safety.He also lauded the contributions of Dr. Glen Blesoc, of the university of Idaho, who was the course director, and Prof. Dr. Barbara Rasco, course instructor, for coming here from the United States for imparting training.F.P.Report.