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5-days ‘Food Safety System Certification, Lead Auditor Training Course’ concludes at UVAS

LAHORE (22-07-22): The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN) of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore in collaboration with Star Farm Pakistan organised concluding ceremony of five days ‘Food Safety System Certification, Lead Auditor Training Course’ (FSSC 22000 5.1) here at City Campus Lahore.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad presided over the concluding ceremony of the training course and distributed certificates among participants and resource persons while Chairman (FSHN) Dr Snaullah Iqbal, Mr Tariq Qamar as a resource person and a number of participants including food industry professionals/technologists, production/quality and regulatory affair managers, trainer, auditors, consultants, academicians and researchers were present. Dr Muhammad Sohaib was the organizer of the training course.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad said that such training bring competency in professional work and advised participants to apply your knowledge in your practical work which learnt from this training. He lauded the organizer (FSHN) who selected a one of the renowned practical trainer to conduct this training on informative topic He also sought suggestions from participants of training that how to make such training more productive for the capacity building of the professionals. Earlier, Dr Muhammad Sohaib spoke about the objectives of the training course.

The aim of the training course was to train human resource regarding food safety standards especially Food Safety Systems Certification (FSSC) 22000 5.1 Scheme, ISO 22000:2018, ISO 22002-1 & additional requirements that cover the production, processing requirement for food safety consideration for food and other allied industries.

Various aspects have been discussed during five-day training course related to audit, management, audit performance, audit evidence, mock audit, non-conformity writing, audit reporting & audit competency etc.