Standards

This standard outlines a code of safety for chemical laboratories.

This Code of Practice sets out the recommendations for the hygienic preparation of packaged natural coconut water including harvesting, processing, packaging, storing, transporting and distributing.

This standard applies to Watermelon, Cirtullus lanatus (Thumb) to be supplied fresh to the consumer.

The purpose of this standard is to provide the quality requirements for grades of watermelon in a lot.

This standard applies to Ginger, Zingiber officinale grown locally to be supplied fresh to the 

consumer, and excludes products for industrial processing.

The purpose of the standard is to provide the quality requirements for grades of ginger so as to assist exporters in their transactions.

This standard specifies the general labelling requirements for Electrical Equipment, Fittings and household electrical appliances and their detachable heating element(s) if any, offered for sale in Guyana. This Guyana Standard shall be applied for all Electrical Equipment, Fittings and household electrical appliance, should there be a standard for a particular product it shall be applied in conjunction with the labelling requirements of this standard.

This standard specifies requirements for the labelling of household chemicals sold in Guyana, whether locally made or imported, and gives a series of warning labels corresponding to the designated classes of dangerous goods as detailed in Appendix A. This standard shall be read in conjunction with GYS 9-1 :1994, “Specification for labelling of commodities - Part 1: General principles”.

This standard applies to Green Plantain, Musa paradisice on the bunch supplied to both the local and export markets.

This standard applies to wheat flour for human consumption prepared from common wheat, Triticum aestivum L. or club wheat, Triticum compactum host or mixtures thereof, and include “brown flour”, “wholemeal flour” and “self raising flour”, which is pre-packaged ready for sale to the consumer or destined for use in other food products.

It does not apply to:

(a)          any product made from durum wheat (hard wheat, T. durum desf.);

(b)          wheat flour to be used in brewing, for the production of starch or gluten, or for non-food use;

(c)          wheat flour in which the protein content has been reduced; and

(d)         wheat flour subjected to special treatments other than bleaching or drying. 

This standard prescribes requirements for margarine and cooking margarine, and includes methods of sampling. It does not apply to any product containing less than 80% mass of fat which is labelled so as to be mistaken for margarine.

 This standard specifies a method for the determination of the breaking force of intra-uterine devices (IUDs) with or without a thread, provided that the type of IUD permits the use of the method specified in this standard.