Campco awarded with ISO 22000 Certification

08.06.10 Mangalore : The Campco Ltd, The multi state co-operative giant based a Mangalore has been awarded the ISO 22000 Certification pertaining to Food Safety and Food Quality by the certification authority SGS of Switzerland, for its chocolate manufacturing division, said Sanjay Goshal of ISO.

He was speaking after handing over ISO certification to Konkodi Padmanabha, president of Campco during the press meet held at its head office ‘Varanashi Towers’ on June 7, Monday. He also said that the ISO 22000 Certification is given to Campco for the activities of preparing, storing and dispatching of cocoa based products, chocolates, hard boiled sugar confectionery products, instantised drinking chocolates and Instant milk flavouring.

Congradulating the Campco, he also said that, ISO 22000 standards is widely accepted across the world as the model for Food and Safety. Customer expectation, environmental concerns, demands for organic foods, changing technology are some of the reasons for the implementation of Food Safety assurance system by manufacturers.  Campco is one of the 53 ISO certified company so far to ensure food safety to customers, he added.

Chief Guest Satish Marathe, National President of Sahakara Bharathi congratulated the company and said that, Campco made the co0operative business proud and chocolate making is a big business in our country.

Konkodi Padmanabha, president, CAMPCO, said that this certification is given to all the farmers of Karnataka and Kerala for their efforts behind the company. Large numbers of workers of past and present are responsible for this achievement.

He also said that Campco is already in the process of applying for ISO 14000 pertaining to environmental management systems and OHSAS-18000, a policy of the management to conform the legal requirements and with other requirements to which the organization subscribes pertaining to health and safety of the system.

Srikrishna Bhat, vice president, CAMPCO, A S Bhat, managing director and Suresh Bhandary were present.