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During December 2009, Food Corporation of India (FCI) and Department of Food and Public Distribution informed that the PAU-201 variety of Paddy rice milled in Punjab is showing higher incidence of damaged grains in rice. The issue was examined by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and according to it, the blackened grains /slightly blackened grains and pin –point blackened grains in the rice of this variety were ranging from 3.39 to 8.79 per cent. The ICAR viewed that blackened grains/slightly blackened grains and pin-point blackened grains in the rice were due to excessive iron content in this variety. In January 2010, on the request of the Food Corporation of India and the Department of Food & Public Distribution, 75 samples of rice were collected from various places of Punjab by a team constituted by the Department of Food & Public Distribution. The samples were sent to three Central Food Laboratories situated at Ghaziabad, Pune and Mysore for analysis as per the parameters prescribed in the PFA Act 1954. Out of the above three labs, only the Central Food Laboratory at Ghaziabad is under the administrative control of the Food Authority.
           In January, 2010 on the request of the Food Corporation of India and the Department of Food and Public Distribution, 75 samples of rice were collected from various places of Punjab by a team constituted by the Department of Food and Public Distribution.
          The samples were sent to three Central Food Laboratories situated at Ghaziabad, Pune and Mysore for analysis as per the parameters prescribed in the PFA Act, 1954.
          Out of the above three labs, only the Central Food Laboratory at Ghaziabad is under the administrative control of the Food Authority.