For the third year in a row: The Central Laboratory for Pesticide Residues (Q-CAP) continues to succeed in passing the renewal of the ISO grants to the Training Center
For the ISO 9001:2015 specifications for the Quality Management System and ISO 21001:2018 for the Quality Management of Educational Facilities
=== … At the center, stressing the laboratory’s excellence in applying international quality standards in all its departments and services, which reflects its strategy to proceed according to the center’s future plan and vision. In this context, Prof. Dr. Hind Abdullah, Director of the Central Laboratory for Pesticide Residues Analysis and Head of the Training Center, announced that this achievement comes within the framework of the laboratory’s plan to develop the quality of all its various departments for customers. She pointed out the importance of having an accredited training center that aims to raise the efficiency of researchers and specialists working in the field of #food_safety and pollutant analysis at the local and international levels, as well as students and graduates. The center also provides support and cooperation with non-governmental organizations to train on sustainable agricultural development projects as an active part of the agricultural community. It also aims to provide the necessary consultations in the field of food safety and laboratory quality to obtain a safe food product. In the same context, Abdullah confirmed that the Q-CAP Training Center has implemented a large group of training programs at the international and local levels, as it has implemented 4 specialized international programs for Arab and African countries for more than 65 specialists, namely Libya, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Botswana, in various fields, including proficiency testing methods, detection of mycotoxins in foods, methods and techniques of microbial examination and assessment in food and environmental samples, food safety tests and quality systems, in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and some private entities in Arab countries. At the local level, the center has implemented more than 20 specialized programs for various entities for more than 230 trainees, including those specialized in the fields of sampling methods and techniques for members of the Food Industries Chamber, the Food Industries Export Council, production and export companies in the field of food industries from the private sector and private laboratories and researchers from universities and research bodies and government agencies such as water and sanitation companies. The center has also implemented 6 summer training programs at the laboratory headquarters and its branch in Ismailia for more than 200 final-year students at Egyptian universities for the Faculties of Agriculture, Science and Veterinary Medicine in the field of testing laboratories efficiency and quality management systems in testing laboratories and laboratory accreditation according to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017. The center has also trained more than 60 trainees from the National Food Safety Authority inspectors at the laboratory headquarters on “methods and techniques of taking food samples for microbiological assessment to conform to maximum limits.” All of this comes within the framework of implementing the #QCAP #Training_Center plan. According to the role of the laboratory in the field of food safety and testing food contaminants.
It is worth noting that the laboratory has been providing international and local training programs in the fields of food safety and pollutant analysis for more than 20 years, during which it has contributed to raising the efficiency and adding expertise to specialists from Arab and African countries and specialists in Egypt using the latest training methods and the best experts working in this field.
All of this comes within the framework of improving and developing the laboratory’s services to increase Egyptian exports and open new international markets by developing all laboratory departments and providing them with the latest devices used in the field of pollutant analysis in the world and increasing the efficiency of researchers and analysts through continuous training on the latest analysis methods by bringing in international experts to train them and also increasing the laboratory’s capacity, all of which was reflected in the increase in the number of samples received by the laboratory in the various laboratory departments.