The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) seized 565 scales, 19 masses and six measures during a recent weights and measurers surveillance exercise it conducted countrywide during the first half of the year.
In a press release, the GNBS said Weights and Measures officers conducted the exercise at 5,655 premises countrywide to ensure that all devices used in commercial trade were verified and stamped for the period under review. The officers also found that some stakeholders had been delinquent in submitting their devices for stamping and as such a number of temporary locations have been established to expand the exercise and better facilitate vendors, shopkeepers and other users of scales.
Meanwhile, the GNBS said its officers completed verification exercises which included the stamping of scales, masses and measures used for the