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SLBS participates in groundbreaking Governance Standard

Blog, Press Releases / By SLBS Web Admin

SLBS participates in groundbreaking Governance Standard The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) is pleased to inform of the latest results of the increased participation in International Standardization, a significant outcome of the Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN) project which provided technical assistance aimed at SLBS leveraging, Saint Lucia’s ISO membership to ensure the participation of …

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Regional Standard for Food Labelling – Saint Lucia Zoom Stakeholder Forum CONSUMERS & NGO

Blog, CROSQ, Events, News, Standards for Public Comments / By SLBS Web Admin

Join us on Zoom as we discuss FDCRS 5 Labelling of Foods -Pre-Packaged Register Alternatively you can join via our website: https://www.slbs.org/zoom-meetings/regional-standard-for-food-labelling-saint-lucia-stakeholder-forum-consumers-ngo/ Zoom Conference Page This CARICOM Regional Standard is applicable to the labelling of all pre-packaged foods to be offered to the consumer or pre-packaged foods for catering purposes. This standard is not applicable …

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GLOBAL PANDEMIC UNDERSCORES MEASUREMENT ACCURACY IMPORTANCE ON WORLD METROLOGY DAY

Blog, CROSQ, News / By SLBS Web Admin

Regional metrologists (measurement experts), as well as their international counterparts, are today celebrating World Metrology Day (May 20th) by recognising the increasing importance their work will have to play in the current climate and the future economic recovery.

Charging Ahead: Weights and Measures Week 2020

Blog / By SLBS Web Admin

Charging Ahead: Weights and Measures Week 2020 Happy Weights and Measures Week 2020! Weights and Measures Week is celebrated every year from March 1-7 to commemorate President John Adams signing the first U.S. weights and measures legislation into law on March 2, 1799. It is estimated that sales of products or services involving “weights and …

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500 New National Standards for St Lucia

Blog, News / By SLBS Web Admin

For the past 18 months an international team of experts has been beavering away, in an overcrowded room somewhere in the St Lucia Bureau of Standards – with the goal of adding some 500 new international Standards to the country’s existing portfolio of 200 Standards. Why? Why indeed! Is this exercise going to make our …

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A Brief History of Standards

Blog / By SLBS Web Admin

How, and why, did the whole field of Standards come into existence? First, standards are nothing new. When the Egyptians built the Pyramids, they used a standard to define length. After all, there’s no point in hewing a massive block of stone from a quarry, transporting it hundreds of kilometres down the Nile and hauling …

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A Culture of Quality

Blog / By SLBS Web Admin

Science was always in her DNA. From the tender age of 5, she was mixing powder and water, flour, cream, soap. Whatever compounds she could find, she would mix. It was no surprise that she chose Biology, Physics and Chemistry at secondary school. Laura graduated from St. Joseph’s Convent in 2002 with 8 CXC O’levels. …

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SLBS participates in groundbreaking Governance Standard

Regional Standard for Food Labelling – Saint Lucia Zoom Stakeholder Forum CONSUMERS & NGO

GLOBAL PANDEMIC UNDERSCORES MEASUREMENT ACCURACY IMPORTANCE ON WORLD METROLOGY DAY

Charging Ahead: Weights and Measures Week 2020

500 New National Standards for St Lucia

A Brief History of Standards

A Culture of Quality

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