Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC), responsible for developing quality infrastructure and raising awareness on quality standards in the capital, keeping the health and interests of the consumers in mind, has conducted a series of inspection campaigns across the capital.
The QCC ensures the compliance of controlled products with relevant local and international standards.
This is a part of QCC’s ongoing efforts to ensure the safety of consumers and protect them from the hazards of substandard products. The campaigns aim to promote the quality of locally traded products and enable them to receive the QCC trustmark.
As many as 29,810 products were inspected during the four-month-long campaign that commenced early this year. The initiative targeted a mix of consumer products such as children’s toys in January, household electrical appliances in February, new and retreaded tyres and household electrical appliances in March, and cigarettes in the month of May.
“QCC carries out regular inspection campaigns as part of our ongoing priority to ensure the health and safety of community members through the continued surveillance of all products traded in Abu Dhabi. Through such initiatives, we seek to encourage the use of the Abu Dhabi Trust Mark on products by highlighting the requirements of our various product conformity schemes. We believe that in return, this will support our ongoing efforts to build a solid and highly efficient quality infrastructure in the emirate as articulated by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030,” said Mohammad Helal Al Beloushi, Acting Director of Marketing and Communications at QCC.
In addition, QCC inspected the accuracy of legal measuring instruments such as trade scales and balances, gold and precious metal scales, Arabic oud and perfume scales, weighing bridges, shipping scales, and petrol pump meters. In the process, a total of 2,411 measuring instruments were inspected.
OCC in an earlier awareness campaign rolled out in December 2014, distributed 1,354 measurement rulers to garments and tailoring shops that use the unit of length in buying and selling garments.
Set to conclude at the end of the year, the campaign aims to replace yards with metres as the official approved unit of length.
