Bureau Veritas

is working

to support

industrialisation

in Africa

Bureau Veritas is the technical partner to African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim Bank) for African
Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC) - a State-of-the- Art AgroFood Laboratory, that has the capacity to provide quality and reliable results that are traceable to international standards in terms of quality and safety.

The partnership will also build human resource capacity in analytical testing through technological transfer by way of training service that will be offered by AQAC Laboratory, and employ local indigenous citizens for key positions. Through the AQAC initiative, tests which were previously sent out of the continent can now be analyzed locally, and still meet the same international standards. This helps to eliminate losses due to foreign exchange.

Bureau Veritas is ready to use AQAC to improve the quality of Nigerian Agrofood products, providing a boost to businesses and ensuring the well-being of local consumers. Compliance with internationalstandards will facilitate access to export markets and thus increase the economic activity and employment in Nigeria.

With AQAC laboratory, exporters of Agrofood products will no longer suffer losses of invested funds and reputations that result from rejected exported products.

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