Farmchemie awarded ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Award

The presentation ceremony of the ISO 9001:2008 and World Health Organization Good Manufacturing Practices (WHO - GMP) Quality Awards to Farmchemie (Private) Limited was held recently at "The Eagle", Waters Edge, Battaramulla.

The Chief Guest was the Director General of Department of Animal Production and Health, Dr. W.K. de Silva.

Farmchemie became the first and only Veterinary Pharmaceutical Company in Sri Lanka to hold the prestigious ISO 9001:2008 and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) Quality Awards when United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) elected to present this important award to Farmchemie via SGS United Kingdom Ltd. Systems and Services Certification following a comprehensive systems audit by SGS Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.

Uditha Wanigasinghe, Managing Director of Farmchemie, said that as a company desired to ensure only the premium products reached its customer base, imports were only from world renowned suppliers who were holders of quality certifications such as ISO, GMP etc. To carry the same quality assurance given by the supplier to the end-user Farmchemie streamlined its operations to meet the required standards to obtain internationally recognized Quality Awards, Good Manufacturing Practices for which the guidelines are laid out by the World Health Organisation (WHO -GMP) and ISO 9001:2008. "By obtaining such internationally recognized quality awards, Farmchemie would prove beyond doubt to all its stakeholders the legitimacy of the undertaking of high quality standards given in its quality policy.Farmchemie wanted to bridge the gap for the large scale poultry processors who maintained international quality standards but did not have inputs providers who supplied products and services in par with the same international quality."

B. A. Sumanasiri, Manager Certification of SGS explained the importance of such quality standards to an industry and advantages of dealing with such company followed by the official presentation of the awards to the Managing Director of Farmchemie.

Dr. Kumar de Silva, Director General of Department of Animal Production and Health, explained the significance of such quality standards to them, as Chief regulators, when a company maintains such quality standards and thanked Farmchemie for initiating, of its own accord, such standards and invited the remainder of the suppliers to follow the example set by Farmchemie.