{"id":96948,"date":"2026-08-09T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rta.af\/?p=96948"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:20:19","slug":"standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A standard laboratory for assessing the quality of food, medicine and health products at the South-West Zone level has been inaugurated in Herat Province in the presence of officials of the Islamic Emirate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, said at the opening ceremony that the laboratory will assess the quality and safety of food, medicines and health products imported into Afghanistan from neighboring and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Baradar urged traders to refrain from importing substandard products into the country, stressing the need to ensure that imported goods and services comply with national and international standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said strengthening quality-control mechanisms is an important step toward economic growth, consumer protection and improving the standard of products and services in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A standard laboratory for assessing the quality of food, medicine and health products at the South-West Zone level has been inaugurated in Herat Province in the presence of officials of the Islamic Emirate. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, said at the opening ceremony that the laboratory will assess the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":96939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat - RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat - RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A standard laboratory for assessing the quality of food, medicine and health products at the South-West Zone level has been inaugurated in Herat Province in the presence of officials of the Islamic Emirate. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, said at the opening ceremony that the laboratory will assess the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/englishrta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-09T08:21:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-09T11:20:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kamin Nazari\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@rtaenglish1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@rtaenglish1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kamin Nazari\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kamin Nazari\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/person\/c67c42401e602dff9f60ad4d329203e5\"},\"headline\":\"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-09T08:21:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-09T11:20:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\"},\"wordCount\":136,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"ps\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\",\"name\":\"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat - RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-09T08:21:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-09T11:20:19+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"ps\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ps\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1706},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/\",\"name\":\"RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"ps\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0644\u064a \u0631\u0627\u0689\u06cc\u0648 \u062a\u0644\u0648\u06cc\u0632\u06cc\u0648\u0646\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ps\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2022\/10\/ENGLISH-LOGO-we.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2022\/10\/ENGLISH-LOGO-we.png\",\"width\":688,\"height\":404,\"caption\":\"\u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0644\u064a \u0631\u0627\u0689\u06cc\u0648 \u062a\u0644\u0648\u06cc\u0632\u06cc\u0648\u0646\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/englishrta\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/rtaenglish1\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtapashto\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtadari\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportrta\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtauzbek\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqHNsoD-_xMprzkbTxgrsMw\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/RTADari\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/RTASport\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/person\/c67c42401e602dff9f60ad4d329203e5\",\"name\":\"Kamin Nazari\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ps\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b32b05a822ee3d486454b575088ef6ba6a283aa96183249d1830d99f6318ddc6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b32b05a822ee3d486454b575088ef6ba6a283aa96183249d1830d99f6318ddc6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b32b05a822ee3d486454b575088ef6ba6a283aa96183249d1830d99f6318ddc6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kamin Nazari\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/rta.af\/author\/kamin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat - RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat - RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan","og_description":"A standard laboratory for assessing the quality of food, medicine and health products at the South-West Zone level has been inaugurated in Herat Province in the presence of officials of the Islamic Emirate. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, said at the opening ceremony that the laboratory will assess the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/","og_site_name":"RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/englishrta\/","article_published_time":"2026-08-09T08:21:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-08-09T11:20:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1706,"url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kamin Nazari","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@rtaenglish1","twitter_site":"@rtaenglish1","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kamin Nazari","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/"},"author":{"name":"Kamin Nazari","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/person\/c67c42401e602dff9f60ad4d329203e5"},"headline":"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat","datePublished":"2026-08-09T08:21:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-09T11:20:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/"},"wordCount":136,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg","articleSection":["Economy"],"inLanguage":"ps","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/","url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/","name":"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat - RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg","datePublished":"2026-08-09T08:21:30+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-09T11:20:19+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"ps","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"ps","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2026\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-09-at-12.20.51-PM.jpeg","width":2560,"height":1706},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/en\/standard-laboratory-for-food-and-medicine-quality-assessment-opens-in-herat\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/rta.af\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Standard Laboratory for Food and Medicine Quality Assessment Opens in Herat"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#website","url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/","name":"RTA - Radio Television of Afghanistan","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/rta.af\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"ps"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#organization","name":"\u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0644\u064a \u0631\u0627\u0689\u06cc\u0648 \u062a\u0644\u0648\u06cc\u0632\u06cc\u0648\u0646","url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"ps","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2022\/10\/ENGLISH-LOGO-we.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/rta.af\/artmedia\/2022\/10\/ENGLISH-LOGO-we.png","width":688,"height":404,"caption":"\u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0644\u064a \u0631\u0627\u0689\u06cc\u0648 \u062a\u0644\u0648\u06cc\u0632\u06cc\u0648\u0646"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/englishrta\/","https:\/\/x.com\/rtaenglish1","https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtapashto","https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtadari","https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportrta","https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtauzbek","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqHNsoD-_xMprzkbTxgrsMw","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/RTADari","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/RTASport"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/rta.af\/#\/schema\/person\/c67c42401e602dff9f60ad4d329203e5","name":"Kamin Nazari","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"ps","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b32b05a822ee3d486454b575088ef6ba6a283aa96183249d1830d99f6318ddc6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b32b05a822ee3d486454b575088ef6ba6a283aa96183249d1830d99f6318ddc6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b32b05a822ee3d486454b575088ef6ba6a283aa96183249d1830d99f6318ddc6?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Kamin Nazari"},"url":"https:\/\/rta.af\/author\/kamin\/"}]}},"lang":"en","translations":{"en":96948,"fa":96941,"ps":96938,"ar":96952},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96949,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96948\/revisions\/96949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/96939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rta.af\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}