Branded smoked fish produced by fish farmers being supported by the Lagos State Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP) are now gaining access into the US market. This started a few weeks ago after the Post Harvest Commercial Fish Processors in Lagos, under the aegis of the Cooperative and Agro-allied Multi-purpose Society (CAMS) received the certification of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Tunde Sanni, owner of Tee Ess Farms, one of the processors now producing smoked fish for the US market, said the United States FDA, working in partnership with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, received samples of fish from the processing plant of the farmers for laboratory testing and had certified the product fit for export to the US with FDA Food Facility Registration N0: 1248378216.
"Exporters of Nigerian foods now buy smoked fish from Tee Ess Farm and export to the United States and there has been no problems doing that. My farm also smokes fish for other fish farmers according to the international standards we have met and they can package the fish with their own label," according to Sanni.
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March 5, 2014
