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SONCAP certified standard organization of Nigeria (son) is a government agency in Nigeria responsible for formulating and implementing quality standards for imported goods and domestically manufactured products.
In order to ensure that the controlled products comply with the approved national technical standards or other international standards and protect Nigerian consumers from unsafe products or products that do not meet the standards, the National Bureau of standards of Nigeria has decided to implement the pre shipment mandatory conformity assessment procedure (hereinafter referred to as SONCAP) for the controlled products exported to the country.
Product coverage:
1. All electrical and electronic products that could be used by members of the public whether in their homes or otherwise e.g in residential, office, retail, leisure etc environments. Examples include, but are not limited to, household appliances, IT products, communication products, lighting products, audio-visual products
2. Motor vehicle tyres
3. Automotive glass
4. Vehicle spare parts
5. Motor vehicle batteries
6. Gas Appliances
7. Toys
8. Certain galvanised steel products
9. Food and Food Products
10.Chemicals
SONCAP consists of two phases
Two step process
1. Product certification: product certification;
2. SONCAP certification: SONCAP compulsory certification.
SONCAP handling method
Attention problem
In order to ensure that the regulated products comply with the approved national technical standards or other international standards, and protect Nigerian consumers from unsafe products or products that do not meet the standards.