‘Trust mark’ to help you buy quality products
Look for accuracy sign on weighing scales before purchasing items, consumers told
abu dhabi — The Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council (QCC) has conducted a series of inspection campaigns across the Capital to ensure the compliance of controlled products to relevant local and international standards.
With the campaign, the QCC aims to promote the quality of locally traded products and enable them to receive the ‘QCC Trust Mark’.
Almost 30,000 products were inspected during the four-month campaign, which began in early 2015. The initiative targeted a mix of consumer products such as children’s toys in January; household electrical appliances in February; new and re-treaded tyres in March; and cigarettes in May.
In addition, the QCC inspected the accuracy of measuring instruments such as trade scales and balances, gold and precious metal scales, Arabic oud and perfume scales, weighing bridges, shipping scales and petrol pump meters. In the process, 2,411 measuring instruments were inspected.
The QCC called on consumers to look for the gold-coloured accuracy sign on scales before purchasing items. If consumers detect the use of scales carrying the red rejection sign, they can report the issue to the Abu Dhabi government’s contact centre on 800-555.
Mohammed Helal Al Balooshi, acting director of marketing and communications at the QCC, said: “QCC carries out regular inspection campaigns as part of our ongoing priority to ensure the health and safety of community members through the continued surveillance of all products traded in Abu Dhabi.
“Through such initiatives, we seek to encourage the use of the Abu Dhabi trust mark on products by highlighting the requirements of our various product conformity schemes. We believe that in return, this will support our ongoing efforts to build a solid and highly efficient quality infrastructure in the emirate as articulated by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030.”
In an awareness campaign rolled out in December 2014, the QCC distributed 1,354 measurement rulers to garments and tailoring shops. The campaign aims to replace yards with metres as the official approved unit of length.
The QCC was established in 2009 to raise the quality of the emirate’s exports and locally traded products, while protecting the interest of consumers and supporting the UAE’s competitive economy.