Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Tuesday in Abuja said there was no going back on the June deadline for manufacturers and importers on the electronic-registration of their products.
Dr. Joseph Odumodu, director-general of the organisation, said that the deadline had earlier been extended from May to June.
Odumodu said with the registration, all products in the Nigerian market would have electronic registration code for easy identification of both the manufacturer and importer.
The agency had in February launched the electronic product registration to check the influx of fake and substandard products into the country.
The director-general said “any product that does not carry SON electronic code by June 2013, will be removed from the market and destroyed by the agency”.
Odumodu said the agency would set up an electronic security system with electronic registration in collaboration with other agencies to give an alert on arrival of products.
“At present, we have improved collaborations with relevant authorities in order to achieve this objective.The essence of this is to build a database on details of all the products in the market.
“We need to have a link with the products by having all the details, we will not accept any product that has no product liability,” he said.
Odumodu stated that the organisation would focus on promoting certified made-in-Nigeria products through all available means.
He said the agency had already started a regime aimed at ensuring that every product picked up anywhere in Nigeria was traceable to an identified source.