New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- India has launched its first accreditation scheme for mobile food testing laboratories, aimed at taking quality-assured food testing services closer to communities and strengthening food safety surveillance, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Monday.

The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), a constituent board of the Quality Council of India (QCI), launched the scheme under its Integrated Assessment Programme at the 'Gunvatta Samanvaya - A Multilateral MoU Exchange Ceremony' in New Delhi.

The first-of-its-kind accreditation scheme establishes a framework for mobile food testing laboratories to provide reliable, quality-assured and internationally benchmarked testi...