Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated the FSSAI's NCR(National Capital Region) in National Food Laboratory in __________.

Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated the FSSAI's (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) first National Food Laboratory(NFL) - Delhi, NCR(National Capital Region) in Ghaziabad on the 13th anniversary of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. The lab has been built with the P-P-P model(Public-Private-Partnership) & equipped with state-of-the-art collaborative training centers, namely the Food Safety Solution Centre (FSSC) and the Centre for Microbiological Analysis Training (C-MAT). The government has increased the number of food testing laboratories to 261 from 138 in 2014. Harsh Vardhan has launched 2 'Food Safety on Wheels' (FSW) vans to Uttar Pradesh which would cater to the food testing needs of Ghaziabad and Western Uttar Pradesh. There are 44 FSWs at present, which will be increased to 500 in future to support the states in ensuring food safety.