{"id":12987,"date":"2023-10-02T18:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=12987"},"modified":"2023-10-02T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:40:31","slug":"gnbs-takes-strong-action-against-substandard-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/gnbs-takes-strong-action-against-substandard-products\/","title":{"rendered":"GNBS Takes Strong Action Against Substandard Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently conducted a significant operation to seize and destroy various substandard items, as part of their routine inspections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The items, including electrical products, matches, and cigarettes, were confiscated by GNBS inspectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The electrical products comprised plugs, strips, extension cords, circuit breakers, and lamp holders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of Product and Compliance Department, Quincy Troyer, highlighted issues like missing manufacturing and expiration dates and pictures on these products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the operation, over 12,000 electrical products, close to 5,000 packages of cigarettes, and 450 packages of safety matches were seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troyer acknowledged positive progress, noting increased compliance among stakeholders, ensuring the delivery of quality products to consumers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the GNBS&#8217;s commitment to raising awareness about quality standards and encouraging stakeholders to align with their guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GNBS will continue conducting surveillance exercises across the country to remove substandard products and unapproved measuring instruments from the retail trade, safeguarding consumer interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) recently conducted a significant operation to seize and destroy various substandard items, as part of their routine inspections. The items, including electrical products,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12989,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions\/12989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}