{"id":71100,"date":"2023-04-20T14:54:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=71100"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:54:06","slug":"son-introduces-pam-to-support-manufacturers-importers-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/son-introduces-pam-to-support-manufacturers-importers-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"SON Introduces PAM To Support Manufacturers, Importers, Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"td-mobile-nav\">\n<div id=\"login-form-mobile\" class=\"td-register-section\">\n<div id=\"td-login-mob\" class=\"td-login-animation td-login-hide-mob\">\n<div class=\"td-login-close\">\n<div class=\"td-login-title\">As part of effort to address the challenges of substandard products in the country, the Standards Organization of Nigeria, SON,\u00a0 has developed\u00a0 a product authentication model, PAM, to facilitate the verification of the source quality of products in the Nigerian market.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"td-outer-wrap\" class=\"td-theme-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td-main-content-wrap td-container-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td-container td-post-template-default \">\n<div class=\"td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"td-pb-span8 td-main-content\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"td-ss-main-content\">\n<article id=\"post-18161\" class=\"post-18161 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-business tag-man tag-nafdac tag-ram tag-son tag-soncap\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<p>Sensitizing stakeholders on the PAM recently, the Director General of SON, Farouk Salim, noted that the organisation would\u00a0continue to facilitate trade, ensure that importers and\u00a0 manufacturers products meet the requirements of the relevant standards, thereby promoting public safety, improving the lives and security of citizens and making Nigeria products\u00a0 marketable around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Farouk who disclosed that part of the benefits of the model included protection of genuine manufacturers and importers from faking and counterfeiting of their certified products, applauded the organization for having substantially reduced the importation, manufacturing and\u00a0 distribution of substandard products in the country through its mandatory conformity assessment program, MANCAP and\u00a0 SON conformity assessment program,\u00a0 SONCAP.<\/p>\n<p>He however lamented that\u00a0 despite the effort of the organization, substandard products were still being imported,\u00a0 manufactured and\u00a0 distributed in the country by smuggling and some other forms<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the model, Salim explained that the PAM is a digital technology to complement the SONCAP and\u00a0 MANCAP in furtherance of the fight against substandard and counterfeit products in the country, which will in turn increase productivity and result in employment creation that will lead to security improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis scheme places power to detect or reject substandard goods in the hands of our markets in the hands of our consumers and users of a product.It simply uses a QR code or the dial of\u00a0 smart number SMS\u00a0 to 281\u00a0 to verify the product and to see when the product was made, if it has expiration date, when it\u2019s expiring,\u00a0 where it is made and such information are necessary for the consumer to either buy the product or not to buy\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is\u00a0 different from the other types of products that are used by other organizations in the country just\u00a0 like the NAFDAC, where you have to buy the product, scratch the box and then when you discover that\u00a0 it\u2019s fake, you are helpless. You already bought the product.\u00a0You now have to go back and fight with the person who sold it to you. But with PAM, with your smartphone, before you buy the product, you scan it to verify\u00a0 if the product is okay for you to buy or not to buy. It will now put SON in a better position to protect our fellow citizens and ensure that we all get value for our\u00a0money\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Shaibu Onucheyo, who presented a paper on the use of the PAM said, the organisation came up with the model\u00a0 to give the purchaser or\u00a0 buyer the\u00a0 opportunity to confirm\u00a0 the authenticity and the quality of the product before payment is made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore now, the buyer must have bought the product, taken it home and put to use because before he or she\u00a0 will realize that the product is substandard,\u00a0 he or she has spent money on\u00a0 it and this\u00a0 does not give them value for their money\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve this, is as simple as anything because the mark you\u2019ll see there has almost over 10 elements in it that speak different languages. When\u00a0 in language I give you a different sign that this product is authentic or not. So the moment you scan with your QR code, encodes\u00a0 information will display, giving you from the manufacturer to every other information needed to confirm to you that the product you\u2019re about to buy,\u00a0 is of good quality and if it is SMS you send you get an instant response telling you about our product. The SMS is toll free\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose Oruche, who represented\u00a0 the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, embraced the PAM,\u00a0 saying it will go a long were to check substandard products, in the country<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Continuing, the DG said: \u201cBasically the benefits include protection of genuine manufacturers and importers from faking and counterfeiting of their certified products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPromotion of a level play field in the market for both locally manufactured and imported products certified by some provision of assurance to consumers on products and guaranteed value for money. Assurance of effective removal of non compliant products in the market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, this is part of the programs we are doing as at SON to make sure our industries and our genuine importers are protected. We are currently with the National Assembly, the ninth National Assembly. We like to definitely thank them for\u00a0 cooperating with us to adjust our Act to put more penalties for people faking especially like endangering products. Most of the time they get fines and the level of fines are so small because this act was done almost eight years ago\u201d, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we went back to the National Assembly and in their wisdom they agreed with us and we are processing right now as we speak. The change of the law where some products are left endangering will require immediate jail time instead of fines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd also we are working very seriously and assiduously to make sure\u00a0 we continue to protect our consumers and our manufacturers from substandard goods that are destroying our manufacturing base as a country. So we recognize to set standards and regulate certain areas of the of the products in the country. We will play our part\u00a0 and protect our people and be sure everybody is protected. That\u2019s our responsibility and we take that serious. We do hope that our industrial base will increase because our current situation where we have a lot of educated youth walking around the country looking for work, and our industries are folding is not acceptable\u201d, he stated further .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have a long way to go in this process, but we\u2019re very proud of the steps we\u2019re making. And we are definitely reassuring the public that SON will continue creating programs like this to protect both our\u00a0 families and our people in addition to our industry, make sure everybody succeeds\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very important, especially with the African Continental Free Trade Area, where countries, our neighboring countries and even countries a little farther from Africa will bring in their products without any serious checks except for their certification. So we want our products to be competitive in our neighboring countries too. We are working with other agencies around the world around\u00a0 Africa to make sure that whenever we certify our products, we will just have a smooth sailing to the neighboring countries where you will not be checked again, where they will want to use that as an excuse\u00a0 particularly to prevent you from doing your businesses\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0journey towards the actualization of this innovation has been long, arduous, and will not have been successful without the strong support and encouragement of the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Industry trade and investment\u201d, revealed the DG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of effort to address the challenges of substandard products in the country, the Standards Organization of Nigeria, SON,\u00a0 has developed\u00a0 a product authentication model, PAM, to facilitate the verification of the source quality of products in the Nigerian market.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":71101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[1869],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-71100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-son"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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