Crackdown on substandard sanitisers urged

Islamabad: The Ministry of Science and Technology has called for the removal of substandard hand sanitisers from the market.

It said Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority had declared 23 brands of hand sanitisers circulating on the market as substandard.

The ministry said those hand sanitisers didn't meet the criteria set by the World Health Organisation.

Earlier, Federal Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry slammed Pakistani universities for not guiding the government on how to handle coronavirus through research.

He said everywhere around the world the universities provided guidelines to governments through research and policy papers in the fight against virus but Pakistani varsities didn't do so. The minister said universities needed to initiate research on it.