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Abuja,  –  Dr Joseph Odumodu, former Director General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), said substandard products in the country had reduced from 85 per cent to 30 per cent in five years.

Odumodu, who was appointed director-general of SON in 2011, said this in Abuja when he handed over the mantle of leadership of the organisation to a new acting director general.

He said the organisation got international accreditation for Food Technology Laboratories at Lekki in Lagos during his tenure.

Odumodu added that SON’s Food and Technology Laboratories could now help to reduce the rejection of the nation’s products, especially agro-allied commodities at the global export market.

According to him, the organisation has attracted more investments by sanitising the cables sub sector, which hitherto caused high rate inferno in buildings.

He said “all over the world, we know that Nigeria’s cable is the best.”

Odumodu added that the organisation had seized and