Quality and Competitiveness: LANACOME Serving the Made in Cameroon Label
The National Laboratory for Quality Control of Medicines and Expertise (LANACOME) launched a national training, expertise, and analysis campaign for high-consumption products manufactured in Cameroon on June 16, 2026, through the Camtrade Pass program; a technical guidance initiative in synergy with the operator PIPRA Cameroon S.A.
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The action aims to rectify the manufacturing protocols of small and medium-sized enterprises as well as artisanal micro-units. The upgrading program targets the correction of manufacturing weaknesses to enable the "Made in Cameroon" label to integrate the distribution networks of CEMAC and ECOWAS.
The analysis of merchandise rejections at borders highlights recurrent structural anomalies that the public-private partnership aims to absorb. The intervention plan is organized around intensive 6-hour training modules aimed at assimilating the principles of the HACCP plan, in accordance with the international reference CAC/RCP 1-1969. The experts from the state laboratory deploy evaluation grids to audit 20 regulatory labeling criteria, based on national law No. 2011/012. The objective is to impose strict respect for the ISO 22716:2017 standard for good manufacturing practices, the lack of which generates microbiological contaminations and physico-chemical deviations in consumer markets.
The support system breaks with administrative coercion mechanisms to prioritize measurable skill transfer in the short term. Agro-food and cosmetic business promoters are required to formulate an immediate action plan, accompanied by mandatory follow-up audits scheduled for J+45 and J+90. The initial evaluation leads to the delivery of 6 operational deliverables, including calculated nutritional declaration tables and personalized risk maps. Thirty years after the signing of the founding decree of 1996 and following the institutional reorganization consecrated by text No. 2018/764 of December 11, 2018, the public organization intends to transform technical compliance into a lever for commercial expansion.
Bernardo
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