The Standards Organisation of Nigeria on Tuesday presented certificate of conformity to the requirements of Nigeria Industrial Standards/ ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System standard to Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell Milk.
The Director-General of SON, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, made the presentation to the Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria, Chief Keith Richards, in Lagos.
Odumodu said, “By this impressive feat, this company has now joined the league of the lofty class of Food Safety Management System certified companies in Nigeria.”
According to him, only 17 organisations have received this certification in Nigeria from SON, and these are the few SON is recommending to the public to patronise based on food safety considerations.
Odumodu said the award was a giant stride in the pursuit of excellence in manufacturing towards providing not only quality food for consumers but safe for consumption.
He commended Promasidor for the achievement, remarking that it was worthy of emulation by well-meaning business community.
Odumodu said he strongly believed that achieving the certification was a demonstration of conformity of the Promasidor’s management system to internationally acceptable standard requirements and its ability to get it right the first time and always.
He told the company that the journey to excellence that it had embarked upon had not ended because quality was a journey to infinity.
“My challenge to you today is to keep up the good work that you have started and be up to date, to continually reap the benefit of ISO approach to food safety management. We are already receiving information from your customers to assure ourselves that you are living up to their expectation,” he said.
Earlier in an address, Chief Richards said the company would continue to improve on food safety and hygiene in a way that would guarantee sound health for the teeming customers of the company’s brands.
Keith noted that the company was built on vision and innovation and would continue getting affordable products to the public.