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Guyana’s National Standards Office (GNBS) as the National Measurement Institute continued to achieve major successes in 2020 as many of its targets set at the beginning of the year were achieved, despite obstacles caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.
Significant efforts have been made under the Legal Metrology Program to verify weighing devices used in commerce to protect consumers and ensure fairness in commerce. In addition, under its Industrial Metrology Program, GNBS continued to provide calibration services to a wide range of stakeholders during the year.
During 2020, a total of 29,675 new devices, consisting of 638 ratings, 1473 masses and 27554 electric meters, were validated for GPL. This indicates an overall increase in validated new devices compared to 2019.
Meanwhile, for devices already in use in shops, markets and other locations such as supermarkets, manufacturing companies, rice mills, hospitals, airlines, post offices, a total of 5009 scales, 9977 masses, 140 bridge scales weighing, 202 electricity meters, and 59 moisture gauges were checked.
