Our Municipal Analyst Laboratory (MAL) was established by the Public Health Department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in 1903, primarily for testing clinical samples and later water samples. With introduction of the Bombay Prevention of Food Adulteration Act in 1925, initiated testing of some category’s food samples. Thereafter the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (PFA) in 1954 and PFA Rules 1955, were implemented in Greater Bombay from 1956, increased the number of food samples for testing the chemical and microbiological parameters. Considering this our laboratory which was located in the old BMC building was shifted to centrally located G/North Ward office building in Dadar West.
Currently our laboratory is the only Food and Water testing laboratory of BMC in Mumbai. The laboratory is accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration (NABL) for complying with International Standard ISO/ IEC/ 17025 :2017 in field of Chemical and Biological Testing. Our laboratory is headed by Municipal Analyst who also exercise his duties as a Food Analyst. He is nominated by the Central Government and then appointed by the State Government vide Gazette Notification for carrying out analysis of food articles as per the Food Safety and standard Act (FSSA), 2006 as per section 45. As a Food Analyst he has to give expert opinion in the court of law in cases where the samples are declared as adulterated and/or not safe for human consumption.
The major purpose of the laboratory is to provide testing service to the public Health Department of BMC to test food and water samples for safeguarding the community health.
Our Vision:
The laboratory aims to Provide Cost – Effective and Quality Testing Service to our customers considering the significance of Food Safety from farm to fork and to ensure safe food products are available for human consumption.
Our Objective:
• To give importance to the Quality Standards of testing operations.
• To provide accurate and timely analytical results consistently.
• To provide regular training for staff to enhance their technical knowledge and competence.
• To maintain impartiality, confidentiality and operational integrity.
• To laboratory goals to achieve overall customer satisfaction index (CSI) 95% and above.
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