The Ministry of Public Health issued a guide on interpreting the laboratory analysis certificate for food samples that are analysed in the Ministry’s central food laboratories.
The guide aims to introduce importers and exporters to the most important contents of the laboratory analysis certificate in terms of the type of tests and the limits of acceptance, rejection, confidence and accuracy in each laboratory result, which helps in a deeper understanding of the reasons for refusing food shipments and avoiding their recurrence in future shipments.
The guide also helps importing companies to know the level of product quality, especially when the value of the analysis is high or low to be close to the conformity limits without exceeding them, so that work is done to reach the highest possible quality in similar imported items in the future.
This step comes in response to the requests of exporters and importers through the questions received about the results of the analysis and trying to understand and benefit from them, as the guide is one of the important guides issued by the Food Safety and Environmental Health Department based on the principle of partnership, knowledge transfer and facilitating procedures for importing exporters.
The laboratory analysis guide contains a detailed explanation of all the contents of the analysis certificate, starting with the logo of the accreditation body for the laboratory to the important notes at the bottom of the certificate, information about the sample received, the date of the analysis, the date of issuance of the result, and the table for the results and clarifying the types of analyzes and their respective units.
It also contains instructions for how to deal with the results, whether they are identical, rejected, or close to the limits of rejection, in addition to instructions about requests for re-analysis and the foundations used in studying these requests.It is mentioned that the guide is available on the electronic page of the Port Health and Food Control section of the Ministry of Public Health website.
It is worth noting that a week ago, the Ministry of Health announced the start of using the electronic laboratory information management program in central food laboratories, which would allow the exchange of information on food analysis electronically, as was the case in the prestigious international laboratories.
This program is implemented through an electronic system that is characterized by the ability to manage information related to analyzing food samples from the first stage of receiving samples until transferring them to the concerned departments with high accuracy and effectiveness.
