The Rwanda Bureau of standards (RBS) has equipped its laboratories with new equipments meant to enhance consumer protection as well as facilitate traders to sell high quality products.
Antoine Mukunzi, the director of Bio chemical Labs encouraged traders to sell genuine products. “Manufacturers can now bring their products for verification if they want to gain their credibility and make better sales.” He further pointed,” among ways of improving sales ones commodity ought to abide with international standards and our role is to recommend quality products.”
Demonstrating how the machines work, Mark Cyubahiro Bagabe the RBS director general noted that the equipments will also be used to test goods entering the country.
In this respect, the petroleum unit for instance has been equipped with a petrol distillation machine which verifies the quality of petroleum products. The machine will restrict the sale of replica oil which is commonly a mix of petrol and paraffin; greedy traders use this scam to increase capacity levels.
In regard to food stuff, the sophisticated equipments are used to test the quantity of atomic elements such as mercury and lead especially in soft drinks.
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