In keeping with its mandate to ensure that consumers are not sold substandard imported items, the Product Monitoring Department of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday destroyed 4,800 imported light switches.
A GNBS release yesterday stated that the switches were inadequately labelled and lacked the required certification mark and were destroyed in the presence of the Bureau’s inspectors.
According to the release, the imported items were inspected since November 26, 2020 and were found not to be in compliance with requirements of the National Standard. It pointed out, “In the absence of the requisite certification mark and labelling, the importer was required to provide the GNBS with an authentic test certificate indicating that the light switches met quality requirements. The importer was unable to do so and hence, the necessary steps were taken to destroy the substandard items.”
