Bureau of standards in need of more laboratory testing equipment 

The South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS) on Thursday urged the national government to provide it with funds to procure more laboratory testing equipment to improve it’s capability to test products in the market.
Kuorwel Kuai Kurowel, the chairperson for South Sudan National Bureau of standards

By Simon Deng

The South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS) on Thursday urged the national government to provide it with funds to procure more laboratory testing equipment to improve it’s capability to test products in the market.

“Our main challenges and constraints encompasses inadequate resources and testing equipment for our laboratories and staff mobility, standards are line of defense against concentration risks,” Kuorwel Kuai Kurowel, the Chairperson for SSNBS said during the inspection visit by William Anyuon Kuol, the Minister of Trade and Industry.

He said that the procurement of standard equipment will enable them to detect and reduce the risk threats to consumers.

 “In an endeavor to strengthen the National Bureau of Standards, it is important for government to provide adequate financial resources for the procurement of standard equipment, build laboratories that provide safe working environment for staff,” Kuai said.

“We have a huge influx of commercial products which include edible and non-edible products getting imported into our country, oftentimes and for records, these products come into the markets without meeting acceptable safety standards,” he added.

William Anyuon Kuol, the Minister of Trade and Industry said that both the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the National Bureau of Standards are facing diifuclites in maintaining safety standards.

“We are now getting some difficulties because of some other reasons including the limited new technology, we are struggling to reach other world standards, some people are trying to exploit our country by bringing goods that are substandard,” Kuai said.

 “We have 10 states and three administrative areas that need to be given priority, we can joke with other things but we cannot joke when it come to term of living, we need to join hands as South Sudanese so that we save lives,” he said.

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