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Quality India

The presence of added Formaldehyde in fish is
a serious threat to the health and safety of the
consumers and requires immediate intervention
by National Quality Assurance bodies. Hence,
there exists an urgent need to introduce necessary
reforms in the fisheries ecosystem to ensure
quality products and to create an ecosystem
through which such instances, if they occur, are
detected and preventive measures are taken
so that such contaminated food products are
not consumed by Goans or the vast number of
tourists who come to Goa as a favoured tourist
destination.

Why QCI

The QCI has the mandate to provide credible third-party
assessment and monitoring through various internationally
accepted standards to create trust among public and
stakeholders. The QCI is working through various Boards:

• NABCB, the national accreditation body works on
ISO 17011 and is a member of the IAF (International
Accreditation Forum) and PAC (Pacific Accreditation
Cooperation). It has also signed MRAs which provide
global acceptance to results of certification and
inspection carried out by accredited agencies. NABCB
accredits Certification and Inspection bodies through
ISO 17021 and ISO 17020, the globally accepted
standards for accrediting certification and inspection
bodies. These organizations form an integral part of
QCI quality infrastructure and work on behalf of QCI for
product certification or inspection.

• NABL, the national accreditation body for testing and
calibration laboratories, works on ISO17025 through
which any laboratory if accredited by NABL, the test
reports are treated at par around the world. Every
consignment exported from India to any economy, is
tested through NABL accredited labs and only then the
consignment is not re-tested for acceptance.
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Thus, QCI provides an internationally acclaimed
system of certification, inspection and testing for
any product or service.

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