Standards

This standard sets out general requirements for the contents of advertising, shown or consumed in Caricom Member States, in any medium, whether foreign or locally generated. It also prescribes additional requirements for the following types of advertisements: advertisements of specific classes of goods or services, advertising directed to specific categories of consumers, and advertisements in certain media. This standard also prescribes requirements for the manner of presentation of advertisements.

This standard specifies guidelines which would prevent the arousal of high expectations which would lead to disappointment, or cause conflict with parental decisions.

This standard prescribes the wording of a warning notice and its presentation to the consumers in advertisements for cigarettes on television, radio, press, posters and other media of communication. It also covers the requirements for the advertising of other tobacco products. Certain types of promotional materials and advertisements are excluded (See 3.7).

This Guyana Standard is a glossary which defines terms related to passenger car and commercial vehicle tyres. The standard is divided into six sections dealing respectively with general definitions, definitions related to structure, main components, tyre dimensions, service, injury and repair.

This standard specifies the requirements for new and used pneumatic passenger car tyres, along with their storage conditions. It does not apply to tyres for highway commercial vehicles.

This standard applies to varieties of grain of Cowpea Vigna unguiculata.

This standard specifies the quality requirements of all commercial cultivars of bananas obtained from the Musa spp., of the Musaceae family, in the green state and offered fresh to consumers, after they have been processed, packaged and conditioned.

This standard shall not apply to:

a)                  cooking bananas;

b)                 plantains;

c)                  bananas for industrial manufacturing.

This standard applies to commercial varieties of cassava grown from (Manihot dulcis baill and Manihot esculenta crantz) to be supplied fresh to the consumer, after preparation and packaging. Cassavas for industrial processing are excluded.

This standard applies to commercial varieties of cassava grown from (Manihot dulcis baill and Manihot esculenta crantz) to be supplied fresh to the consumer, after preparation and packaging. Cassavas for industrial processing are excluded.