Georgetown : Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has heightened their campaign at shops, supermarkets, hospitals, clinics, health centers, airlines, post offices, rice mills, shipping agencies and fuel stations to ensure that consumers receive value for their money and at the same time protects their health and safety.
According to head of the Legal Metrology and Standards Compliance Department, Shailendra Rai said emphasis was placed on the verification of weights and measuring devices used in the commercial sector to ensure accuracy of such devices and, at the same time, ensuring that consumers received value for money.
Resulting from the verification exercise conducted between the same period throughout the country, 392 scales and 1032 masses and 200 electricity meters were verified for the first time to be used in commercial businesses while 3023 scales, 6815 masses and 1 measure were stamped and verified for consecutive times.
“The consecutive one is those that are already in the system which is being verified and stamped annually during the verification period each year,” Rai explained.
In addition, he said a total of 771 petrol pumps, 66 bulk meters, 25 storage tanks and 54 wagon compartments were verified of which 197 petrol pumps were calibrated, since they were out of tolerance.
In the industrial sector, he said a total 48 weighbridge scales including those used at rice mills and harbour departments were verified and stamped.
The surveillance exercise, he said will continue into the next quarter of this year at sales outlets to seize and remove illegal devices and those that were not verified during the first quarter of this year.
GNBS is urging consumers and the general public to ensure that devices used to weigh or measure their goods bear the stamp or verification sticker of GNBS.
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