Standards Organisation of Nigeria Director-General, SON, Mallam Farouk Salim, said this during a facility tour to FrieslandCampina in Lagos, recently.
He, however, noted that the country was going through a season of insecurity, and restlessness because industries were closing up which led to unemployment. The SON DG appealed to industries to minimise spending of foreign exchange on laboratory tests abroad and stressed that when SON laboratories are supported to be better equipped, the job will be made easier.
“We are here in different roles but we have similar interests which are to drive the safety of products in the best way forward as regulators and producers.