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21 CARICOM Standards Endorsed By Council!
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 02:18
Twenty-one CARICOM Regional Standards were signed-off by the CROSQ Editorial Committee as of September 2009. Of these twenty-one, eighteen standards were developed under the CROSQ/IDB-MIF project for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), and three were on the general work plan of the CROSQ Technical Management Committee.
The 21 standards were circulated to Member States for voting and moved forward in the Standard Development Process by being placed in a priority position on the agenda of the Fifteenth Meeting of the CROSQ Technical Management Committee (TMC) held on 28-29 September 2009. At this Meeting, the standards were reviewed and recommendations made to the CROSQ Council for either voluntary or mandatory adoption in Member States. The Council met on September 29 - October 1 in Barbados at the CROSQ Secretariat, where they approved the CARICOM Standards as recommended by the TMC.
Specifically, the standards addressed were:
  • specifications for the grading of 10 agricultural products, namely sweet peppers, tomatoes, hot peppers, cabbages, pumpkins, oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, bananas and mangoes;
  • specifications for cassava bread; gold articles; coconut oil; carbonated beverages; garbage bags; botanical cosmetics; and fruits and vegetable juices and fruit nectars; and
  • codes of practice for food hygiene; wooden craft items; good manufacturing practices for SMEs; and frozen fruit pulp and purées.
An additional 2 standards were also reviewed by the CROSQ Editorial Committee in August in Jamaica, both of which were already approved by the Council for Economic Trade and Development (COTED) for mandatory adoption by Member States. The CARICOM Regional Standard Specification for Safety Matches is the revised and edited version of the standard originally developed in 1999, while the CARICOM Regional Standard Specification for Grading and Quality Requirements of Table Eggs is the edited version of the original.
 
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