The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON has mounted products
quality testing equipment at the Bauchi state Zonal Laboratory complex
to boost testing capacity of products in the North.
Director Laboratory Services Barth Okoko announced this during the
installation of the equipment, demonstration and training of staff in
Bauchi state. He added that the equipment would be used for testing of
products that could be certified and confirmed to be of good quality.
Okoko explained that the installation of the equipment is the first of its
kind in the North since inception and most of the agricultural products
were from the North.
He said over the years, there was none of this nature that could test perishable products that could easily get damaged on transportation.
According to him, laboratories are said to be the bedrock of any establishment that is quality conscious because it is through testing that a product can be confirmed to be of quality or not.
Earlier, the SON Regional Coordinator, Adamu Abba, said the laboratory and the equipment would serve the North-East Zone and the entire North. He also noted that products from the North were hitherto sent to Lagos for testing, affecting their certification, adding that with the equipment, however, products would easily be tested and certified before going to markets.
