Just Agro LLC is the first Mongolian company to achieve an international safety standard, but the government aims to get 60% of food products HACCP-approved by 2016.
The certificate was presented to T Sodnomdarjaa, the company’s CEO, by head of the Mongolian Meat Association L. Gankhuu.
Sodnomdarjaa said: “This is only the beginning. We have worked for two whole years on research and study to have Mongolian meat pass international safety and quality standards. We have spent MNT50bn ($36.8m) to upgrade our technologies, and purchased MNT61bn ($44.9m)-worth of meat from herders, which we believe was an exceptional assistance for the herding families. We have spent MNT1bn ($736,649) to train our employees to work at world standards.”