The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has said the mobile unit of its National Weights and Measures Programme will start verification exercises shortly, even as it plans to find new ways of meeting stakeholders’ needs and safeguarding consumers this year.
In a press release, the GNBS it has already started verifications at petrol pumps at gas stations. It also said that during last year, 978 scales, 2082 masses and 25 metre rules were submitted to the GNBS for initial verification. Subsequently, other new imported and locally manufactured measuring devices were submitted for verification, indicating that there had been an in crease in the usage of these devices in