World Standards Day 2022 Press Engagement October 14 is celebrated as World Standards Day and like the rest of the World the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards Bureau Slu held celebration activities. A Media Engagement was help at the Conference Room of the Bureau’s office in Bisee Castries. As part of our celebration were a …
Technical Mission of Cannabis Taskforce to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The Minister of Commerce, Business Development, Manufacturing, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs Honourable Emma Hippolyte, Chair of the Cannabis Taskforce led a Technical Mission to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 8th -10 June 2022. The delegation included Mr Dylan Norbert-Inglis, Vice- Chair & Legal …
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Saint Lucia Delegation Tours St. Vincent and the Grenadines Cannabis Establishments. A delegation from the Government of Saint Lucia arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Wednesday 8 June to conduct a tour of several cannabis establishments. The team met with Hon. Minister Saboto Caesar and members of Staff of the Ministry of …
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SLBS Reminds Consumers to Read Product Labels! A complaint of inadequate performance after the use automotive oils has prompted calls for customers to be vigilant and read the label of products before making their purchases. The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards is in receipt of a complaint that a brand of automotive oil purchased locally …
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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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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
