Managing Director of Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr. Peter Ndegwa, has restated that all products by Guinness Nigeria conform to the highest standards of quality, having not only been produced in line with the globally accepted code of good manufacturing practice (GMP).
Also, he said the company’s products have been repeatedly certified by the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON).
In a statement, Ndegwa said: “The meticulous and painstaking work including rigorous quality assurance, that precedes the final production of all our products, has a singular objective: to ensure that our consumers drink products that are healthy and comparable with similar products made by a Diageo facility anywhere else in the world.”
Referring to the Guinness Nigeria production facilities in Ogba, Benin City and Aba, Ndegwa stated that each of the breweries continues to work to exceed critical standards in areas such as quality and very importantly, human safety and environmental preservation.
“On an incremental basis, we continue to automate our processes. Indeed, with an investment in excess of N52 billion in improving our manufacturing processes, our brewing plants would rank favourably among the most automated and modern brewing plants around the world.” The company’s major aim is the continuous enhancement of the quality of products Guinness Nigeria makes available to its consumers, he added.
On the recent sanction against the company by NAFDAC, Ndegwa confirmed that Guinness Nigeria is indeed in receipt of a letter from NAFDAC stressing that, “As a responsible corporate organisation, we take these allegations which relate primarily to raw materials stored in one of our raw materials stores very seriously.”
He clarified that the said raw materials store is not a production facility and that “we engaging NAFDAC for clarifications and resolution of the issues.”
According to Ndegwa, there is an extensive and elaborate process by which basic raw materials are first converted during the brewing stage, with lots of critical control points, before products are bottled and released to the market.
“Each of these painstaking steps is rigorously monitored for conformity with all necessary global standards which we regard as basic, as we always aspire to exceed the much higher standards that have been set internally by the Diageo Group.”
The high quality of products from Guinness Nigeria’s breweries,” he said, “has been attested to repeatedly not only by NAFDAC but also by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, as well as the internal quality controls of the Diageo Group.”
Ndegwa reaffirmed that Guinness Nigeria is very positive that on account of its on -going engagement with NAFDAC, the issues will be clarified and resolved in a short while.
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