In order to prevent fraud in agricultural laboratories, the Secretariat of Agricultural and Livestock Defense of the Ministry of Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) developed the Hub Laboratorial platform.
“With the Laboratory Hub, the information generated in the collections and the respective results allow for more integrated actions, without deviating from the purpose .The tool and automation will serve as a basis for action planning, control and long-term audit. of the production of companies, “says the federal agricultural tax auditor and general coordinator of Agricultural Laboratories, Rodrigo Nazareno.
The analyzes, today, are carried out with the collection of samples by the inspectors in the field, filling in the data by hand, sent to the National Agricultural Laboratories (Lanagros) and retyped. This path enables distortions, loss of information, and agility of reporting. “In its activities, the auditor is faced with more than 60 systems installed in the MPLS. Many do not talk to each other, making it difficult to analyze information”, says the president of Anffa Sindical, Maurício Porto
The platform will track samples from collection on the property to the final result of the analysis to ensure product quality and food safety. “In the past we have had cases in which the same universe of sampling has made a big difference between the Accredited Laboratories and the National Agricultural Laboratories (Lanagros), this tends to end,” reiterates Nazareno.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.