SriLankan Catering triple certified

SriLankan Catering has been awarded two more prestigious accreditations for food safety, placing it among the rare handful of inflight catering companies anywhere in the world to have three global certifications.

SriLankan Catering added the ISO22000:2005 and HACCP-Codex Alimentarius accreditations to its existing ISO9001:2000 standard.

CEO of SriLankan Catering, Dilip Nijhawan, said: "These certifications recognise SriLankan Catering's products, systems and procedures as being of the highest global standards. This will have a tremendous impact on the levels of confidence that our customers have in us."

"SriLankan Catering met full compliance at the professional audits that were performed by the certifying bodies prior to the certifications.

These certifications have very strict standards and are extremely tough to obtain, and it is a tribute to the professionalism of our staff that an Asian company such as ours has achieved this feat," said Nijhawan.

SriLankan Catering is the inflight catering arm of SriLankan Airlines.

It provides inflight catering for SriLankan Airlines and other airlines that fly through Colombo, and also operates restaurants at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA). The company produces more than 13,500 meals per day in its state-of-the-art Flight Kitchen which was built with an investment of USD 25 million.

Production Manager at SriLankan Catering, Sudhish Pande said: "All credit to our staff for the manner in which they have performed, following the commissioning of our new flight kitchen in 2006. Their attitude, enthusiasm and drive took us a long way in implementing the highest standards.