Salim noted that the agency is, however, celebrating the accreditation of three more laboratories at its laboratory Complex at Ogba in accordance with the recognised ISO/IEC 17025:2017. “Presently, SON has five principal laboratories located around the country. In addition to the competencies of the newly accredited laboratories, SON’s food technology laboratories have competence in testing food samples in physico-chemical parameters such as moisture, ash, protein, fat, crude, fibre, heavy metals. This, he said, would reduce the incidence of rejection of exported goods by offering quality-testing services for farm produce meant for exports. The SON DG further called on stakeholders to partner with the agency by patronising its accredited laboratories for food, chemical and electrical testing.

Source: The Guardian July 01, 2021 03:30 UTC