Product Withdrawal Notification – January 2020
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Contraban Cigarettes
Contraban Cigarettes Warning The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) has pulled from the market for sale packages of a particular brand of cigarettes ZON, King Size, Full Flavor 20 class filter cigarettes which was found on sale during routine market surveillance. The non-conforming cigarettes do not conform to SLNS 27: 2016 Specification for Labelling
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2.0 News
Calling All Local Juice Producers! Are you producing or selling local fruit juices? Do you know what information needs to appear on your product label? Join the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) for a FREE workshop on Labelling Requirements for Prepackaged Local Fruit Juice! 🇱🇨 Learn what your labels should include, understand the requirements,
Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards plays host to International Delegation
Regional and international quality professionals from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the European Union (EU) are currently in Saint Lucia for a three day discussion and training which started Tuesday 21st January through to Thursday 23rd January at the Coco Palm Resort, Rodney Bay, Castries. The meeting is the culmination of an African Caribbean and
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500 New National Standards for St Lucia
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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Revision of Fee Structure
The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) under the Chapter 13.25 is authorized to examine goods imported and manufactured locally to determine compliance with mandatory standards. As of January 3rd 2003, the monitoring of goods manufactured in and imported into Saint Lucia has been effected through the Compulsory Standards Compliance Programme. The Compulsory Standards Compliance
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Beauty & Wellness Training
The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards invites you to a free Beauty & Wellness Programme. Register by calling the (758) 453-0049 / (758) 4560102 or visit our website at www.slbs.org.
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Emancipation Day Closure
The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards will be closed on Emancipation Day August 1st, 2019. We will be reopening on Friday 2nd August, 2019. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Do have a safe and enjoyable Emancipation Day.
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May 2019 Newsletter
SLBS gets Support from CSN for Capacity Building For two weeks in May, over two hundred employees of National Standards bodies, public and private sector laboratories from Saint Lucia and the CARICOM Region, received training in two critical standards to drive capacity in build expertise in key conformity assessment bodies in the Caribbean. Through the
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Message from the BIPM and BIML Directors on World Metrology Day 2019
“The SI – fundamentally better” The International System of Units (SI) is the accepted set of units for all applications of measurement worldwide. Although one of its aims is to provide the basis for measurements that are stable over long periods of time, it has always been a practical and dynamic system that has changed
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