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CAMEROON – Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, in his recent preparations for the 2024 State Budget, has issued instructions for the effective implementation of a beer-marking system in Cameroon to combat fraud. This reform, which had been proposed several years ago but faced resistance from brewing companies, is now set to become a reality. In 2019, these companies even appealed to…
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CAMEROON – HYDRAC, a Douala-based local company with a long history of using nuclear techniques for testing in the oil and gas sector, has begun to offer tests for chemical residues and contaminants in cocoa and coffee. Cocoa production represents over 8% of Cameroon’s agricultural output, but exports have been wabbly as a result of a lack of quality control…
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CAMEROON – The African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) is hosting its 28th General Assembly meeting in Cameroon through the country’s standard watchdog, the Agence Des Normes Et De La Qualité (ANOR). The event is being held under the theme: “the Standards We Want – African Union Agenda 2063 and African Continental Free Trade Area: “The Role of Standardisation and Conformity…
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CAMEROON – The European Union (EU) has banned Cameroon from exporting certain agricultural products to the EU due to their questionable quality and the loopholes in the Cameroonian sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) control system. In a letter dated 18 April 2022, addressed to the heads of the phytosanitary police stations at the ports of Douala and Kribi, Yaoundé International Airport…
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