EMPOWERING CONSUMERS THROUGH STANDARDIZATION TO ACHIEVE THEIR RIGHTS TO SAFE QUALITY GOODS AND SERVICES.
EMPOWERING CONSUMERS THROUGH STANDARDIZATION TO ACHIEVE THEIR RIGHTS TO SAFE QUALITY GOODS AND SERVICES Across the African continent, the pursuit of empowering consumers and ensuring their access to safe and quality goods and services is a fundamental pillar of economic development and social well-being. In this landscape, standardization emerges as a powerful tool to empower consumers, ensuring their right to safe and quality products. It ensures that goods and services produced in a specific industry are of consistent quality and are of equivalent to other comparable products or services in the same industry. Standards are essentials that helps the consumer to know exactly what he or she is paying for and protects him or her against substandard and inferior commodities while acting as a compliance system throughout the world. By establishing clear benchmarks for product and service quality, safety, and information transparency, national bureaus of standards (NBS) across A...