Objectives

To upgrade existing NABL accredited laboratory "Western Region Referral Laboratory for Meat and Meat Products Quality Standards" to "Centre of Excellence for Advanced Research on Animal Food Safety".
To develop, standardize and validate protocols/SoPs on advanced techniques and to provide the generated data to Government food legislatives agencies for setting up MRL values/standards for animal origin foods as per international code.
To conduct national/international capacity building training programmes for skill development of faculties, students, researchers, entrepreneurs and farmers etc. by national and international food safety experts.
To establish collaborative partnership with government agencies, international institutes and food processing industries to address various food safety issues.