Standards

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 document recommends good practices for all elements of conformity assessment, including objects of conformity assessment, specified requirements, activities, bodies, systems, schemes and results. It is intended for use by individuals and bodies that wish to provide, promote or use impartial and reliable conformity assessment services. Providers of conformity assessment can include conformity assessment bodies, accreditation bodies, peer-assessment agreement groups, and organizations providing declarations of conformity. Individuals or organizations that promote or use conformity assessment can include, as appropriate, regulators, trade officials, and owners of conformity assessment systems and schemes.

This standard applies to the products known as achar, amchar and kuchela which are prepared from edible fruits such as green or unripe mangoes (Mangifera indica), golden apple (Pommecythere spp.), june plum (Spondias spp.), tamarind (Tamarindua indica) and chalta elephant fruit (Dillenia indica), as the predominant ingredients and blended with spices and additives prior to packaging

This standard applies to the labelling of individual packages and cartons of tobacco products intended for retail sale in the Caribbean Community. It specifies the information, the method of display of such information, the wording and presentation of health warnings to be included on the labels of retail packages of tobacco products intended to be sold in the Caribbean Community. But it does not apply to the labelling of cases of such individual packages or cartons, irrespective of sizes, provided the cases are not displayed or used at the point of sale.

This document specifies chemical and labelling requirements for alcohol based hand sanitizers.

This standard applies to over-the-counter alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

This standard does not apply to:

a)              Non-alcohol based hand sanitizers;

b)              medical-grade hand sanitizers;

hand sanitizers used for surgical application

This standard specifies the minimum requirements and test methods for sodium hypochlorite solutions (liquid chlorine bleaches), including scented solutions. This standard also specifies the requirements for labelling and characteristics of containers.

This standard applies to solutions which contain sodium hypochlorite as the only active ingredient.

This standard does not apply to industrial grade sodium hypochlorite solutions.