We have dedicated quality, food safety network – Fraser
Recently, select journalists from West and Central Africa visited the Research and Development (R & D) Centre of Nestle, one of the world’s leading nutrition and Health Company in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire to have a firsthand experience of its quality and food safety network. Dr. Owen Fraser, Head of the Nestle Quality and Assurance Centre (NQAC) who conducted the selected 20 journalists round the facility, spoke about Nestle’s commitment to delight consumers with healthy food and beverages of the highest quality. CHIOMA UMEHA (HEALTH EDITOR) provides the excerpts: Dr Owen-Fraser Role of R&D in quality and safety Our R&D organisation includes a dedicated quality and food safety network. This has a number of different elements such as: An early warning network, which identifies and helps prevent potential safety issues; a microbiological safety network that provides fast and reliable microbiology safety assessments; an analytical methods network to develop and improv