LAHORE: The Dutch Commercial Counsellor Paul Federer and multinational company Trouw’s nutrition team visited the University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore and called on Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nasim Ahmed here Wednesday.
The Dutch Counsellor desired collaboration with the UVAS in the areas of dairy related products (cheese & yogurt) processing, food safety & food security during the meeting with Prof Nasim and senior professors.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Nasim briefed Mr Paul Federer regarding UVAS strong liaison and working relations with different Dutch institutions/organization for the strengthen livestock sector, dairy and poultry sectors of Pakistan.
He said many of UVAS faculty members got degrees from Nether land institutions in the areas of animal nutrition, food safety and food security and won different research projects from Dutch organizations.
Nutreco/Trouw Nutrition offered collaboration with UVAS regarding research & sustainability with first step of offering free services of NUTRIOPT a nutritional database software which will using for the food and feed analysis.
Prof Dr Anjum Khalique spoke about UVAS modern laboratories for research on food.
On the occasion, Ms Sundas Munawar from the Dutch Embassy, Islamabad, Dean Faculty of Animal Production and Technology UVAS Prof Dr Anjum Khalique, Dean Faculty of Biosciences Prof Dr Habib-Ur-Rehman and faculty members from Animal Nutrition Department and from Food Science and Human Nutrition Department were present.