This standard outlines a code of safety for chemical laboratories.

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 specifies:

a a)  requirements for the manufacturing, alloying and testing of gold articles of 23, 22, 20, 18, 15, 14,12, 10 and 9 kt gold;

b b) requirements for findings and solders to be used in the manufacture of gold articles;

c c) methods for assaying gold, alloyed gold, solder, findings and gold articles; and

d d) requirements for marking and labelling of imported gold articles.

 
NNOTE It does not specify requirements for design of gold articles and does not apply to gold articles intended for industrial purposes such as dentistry, electronics, official coins, gold bars and other such uses.

This standard specifies physical and active ingredient and requirements and methods of test for mosquito coils.

This standard specifies the method for evaluation of the biological efficacy of mosquito coils by the use of glass chamber method. This method provides a satisfactory means of determining the relative efficacy of mosquito coils.