ANOR sensitize representatives of the private sector on product quality control procedures

ANOR is now one of the players in charge of market surveillance in Cameroon following Decree No. 2019/143 of March 19, 2019 reorganizing Standards and Quality Agency. It is in this perspective to raising awareness among Cameroonian socio-economic actors on the protocols for conducting products quality control operations in the market, that an information day for stakeholders was held on Tuesday March 30, 2021 in Douala.

In order to educate the participants on the operating mode of quality control carried out by ANOR, 03 presentations were inscribed in the agenda. The first focused on the legal and institutional framework of quality control in Cameroon; the second on quality control: a key tool for consumer protection and economic sanitation, and the last on the working protocols of judicial police officers with special competence at ANOR.

The presentations during the awareness session, were aimed at presenting the legal corpus governing quality control activity, keeping the audience abreast on the prerogatives assigned to each actor in the control chain as well as the related issues. And in this regard, quality control presents a real challenge for the sanitation of Cameroonian markets.

Thus, the key information that emerges from discussions is that, ANOR’s judicial police officers with special competence will begin their activities in the markets during the month of April 2021. Preventive quality control operations that will begin shortly, shall limit increase in illicit trade, a real menace likewise the invasion of local markets by contraband products.