The recent accreditation of the Government Analyst Food & Drugs Department (GA-FDD) as a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) to the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) 17020 and 17025 standards could mark a “game-changing development” for the productive sector in Guyana since the accreditation now equips the country to make critical and internationally recognised standards assessments of some types of local goods being produced here and targeting international markets.
This is definitely a signal moment for the department in terms of how we can now serve the productive sector,” GA-FDD Director Marlon Cole told Stabroek Business, while disclosing that the department had already communicated “the good news” to both local public and private sector agencies “to ensure that they are now aware that we are in a position to provide a reassuring ‘green light’ with regard to the quality of the goods that they produce for external markets.
