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MALAWI – The Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has marked 50 years of promoting standardization and quality assurance in Malawi under the theme “MBS – Partner for Industrialization”. A parade was conducted as part of the festivities from Blantyre’s old town to Kamuzu College of Health Sciences, where several events were held. Speaking at the occasion, the Bureau’s Acting Director…
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MALAWI – The sale of food in primary and secondary schools has been outlawed in Malawi, a nation in Southeast Africa, to stem the spread of cholera among schoolchildren. The World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement stating that the outbreak began in March of this year and first affected districts in the southern region that were at risk for…
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MALAWI – The Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has rolled out training sessions for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), in its effort to enhance access of MBS certification services to SMEs. The Bureau provides nationwide trainings on relevant Malawi Standards and product certification processes to SMEs. The current training which has been conducted for the most part of August,…
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MALAWI – The Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has fined the Central African Produce, a Malawian wholesaler and distributor, in Limbe for stocking for sale expired maize cream. This follows a tip from the public that the company was allegedly stocking and repacking expired maize cream for sale. A follow up by MBS that was conducted recently confirmed the claims.…
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MALAWI – Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) and Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) for Malawi Chapter have signed a three-year partnership towards the introduction of NAMISA Standards and Quality Journalist Award category. Through this media award category, MBS will award journalists that professionally capture issues to do with Standards, Metrology and Quality or professionally uncover issues that requires the…
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MALAWI – The Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) and the South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNSB) have entered into an agreement by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate trade between the two countries. The MoU is also aimed at furthering international cooperation mainly on standardization, quality assurance and metrology. Speaking during the MoU signing ceremony, the Vice…
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MALAWI – Malawian health experts have faulted the Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) for allowing PressCane Limited (PCL), an ethanol distillery in Malawi, to sell its rectified spirit to the public which, they had previously labelled as substandard. Rectified spirit, also known as neutral spirits, is highly concentrated ethanol that has been purified by means of repeated distillation in a…
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SOUTH AFRICA – Namibia’s health ministry has instructed local environmental health practitioners to withdraw various KOO canned products, Hugo’s Baked Beans and Helderberg Peas, produced between 1 May 2019 and 5 May 2021, from Namibian shelves. Canned products forming part of this recall cover various KOO canned vegetable products, excluding all KOO canned fruit products, KOO pilchards and KOO products…
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