PSQCA To Form Committees To Address Issues Of Retailers For Compliance Of Standards

Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) Director General Muhammad Khalid Siddiq Tuesday visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) to know about the issues being faced by the retailers due to PSQCA raids

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Oct, 2017 ) :Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) Director General Muhammad Khalid Siddiq Tuesday visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) to know about the issues being faced by the retailers due to PSQCA raids and agreed to form committees for their redressing and ensuring compliance of standards and quality of products.

Speaking on the occasion, Khalid Siddiq said PSQCA never wanted to create any kind of harassment in the business community as its only purpose was to ensure compliance of standards and quality that would benefit the business community as well as the general consumers, according to a press release.

He said the Supreme Court of Pakistan had instructed PSQCA to make Islamabad a model city in terms of standards and quality of products and the business community should cooperate it in achieving those objectives.

The business community, he said, should adopt a foolproof mechanism to ensure sale of only licensed products that would also help PSQCA in achieving its goals. Khalid Siddiq said sub-standard products were not in the interest of manufacturers or retailers and the consumers, therefore, business community should discourage supply of such products.

He said PSQCA had developed a mobile application to provided list of licensed products that could be downloaded on mobile phone. It was agreed that two committees would be formed comprising representatives of PSQCA and business community.

One committee would work with manufacturers and the other with retailers to ensure availability and sale of licensed products at retail outlets. It was further agreed that PSQCA in collaboration with ICCI would hold awareness seminars to educate the business community about the importance of standards and quality.

Speaking at the occasion, ICCI President Sheikh Amir Waheed said business community wanted high standard and good quality products at its outlets, however, it needed more time to ensure supply and sale of licensed products. He stressed that instead of conducting raids on outlets, matters should be resolved through negotiations that would also help in compliance of quality standards.