Food Product Quality : The Urgency For National Accreditation Agency

Organised by the Cameroon Association of Science Journalists and Communicators, SCILIFE, the debriefing had as theme non-conformity with standards by manufacturers of food products distributed in the country.
“My presentation was to raise awareness on the root cause of the problem; talk about the need to develop and strengthen our national quality infrastructure by reinforcing the interdependence of the pillars of the infrastructure; and to develop a strategic plan to separate metrology, technical standards and conformity evaluation agencies,” explained Dr Ngono Mballa Rose, a pharmacist and General Manager of the National Drug Quality Control and Valuation Agency, LANACOME.
“We need to create a national accreditation agency to issue accreditations, check equipment, quality control, conformity evaluation...,” Dr Ngono noted. Adding, “This will enable us to track down food products that do not meet standards.” “The current problem is attributed to the fact that the three pillars of national quality infrastructure (technical standardization, metrology and conformity evaluation) are not interdependent and independent,” Dr Ngono note...