Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), Hon. Audley Shaw (centre), along with (from left) Accreditation Manager, Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC), Nickoe Boothe-Thompson; Chief Executive Officer, JANAAC, Sharonmae Shirley; Chief Food Storage Officer, Food Storage and Prevention of Infestation Division (FSPID), Roy McNeil; and Deputy Chairman, JANAAC, Lynden Nugent, at the JANAAC World Accreditation Day CEO Breakfast, at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel on Friday, June 7, 2019. JANAAC, an agency of MICAF, hosted its CEO’s Breakfast and Awards Ceremony under the theme ‘Accreditation: Adding Value to Supply Chains’, being held in recognition of World Accreditation Day, celebrated on the 9th of June annually. The FSPID received the first accreditation certificate to the ISO/IEC 17020 standard for inspection body here in Jamaica.
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, is encouraging Jamaican entities to become accredited through the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation (JANAAC) in order to lift their standards and elevate their position in the global marketplace. “As a country, we cannot get to where we are going unless we lift up our standards. And, lifting our standards means that we have to operate not at Jamaica’s standards but at international standards,” Minister Shaw stated. Minister Shaw was addressing stakeholders at JANAAC’s CEO Breakfast at the Terra Nova All-Suite...
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