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SON Destroys Sub-Standard Goods
The Standards
Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has announced the destruction of sub-standard goods worth million of naira.
Speaking to newsmen, the Director-General of SON, Dr Joseph Odumodu said the sub-standard products worth million of naira destruction took place at SON dump site in Sagamu, Ogun State.
Odumodu said the sub-standard products ranged from cables, armoured cables, ball penbiros, extension sockets, mobile phones, electric bulbs, tyres, engine oil, shaving sticks and stabilisers.
The DG said the exercise was in line with the agency’s zero tolerance campaign against sub-standard products in the country.
He said the public destruction exercise was carried out in accordance with the agency’s procedure which normally commences survey, inventory, seizure sampling, laboratory tests and analysis to ascertain uniformity to specifications and requirements of Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS).
Odumodu explained that some of the products destroyed were wrongly labelled, some have no country of origin mark, while most of the products have expired.
He said the exercise was a culmination of rigorous process carried out by the agency to ascertain the genuineness of their products.
The SON boss said the agency was ever prepared to carry out its statutory roles at all times.
He said SON would not tolerate the distribution of sub-standard products that endanger lives of Nigerians.
He enjoined Nigerians to always patronise certified made-in-Nigeria product with the mark of Quality (NIS) mark.
The DG warned against further distribution, sale and use of sub-standard products, stressing that any person arrested would be prosecuted by the agency.