TBS advised to expand operations countrywide

DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA Bureau of Standards (TBS) has been advised to extend its operations in the country by constructing regional laboratories to make it easier for SMEs to get quality products that will enable them to compete in markets.

Among other challenges, low-quality production has been hindering the SMEs businesses to penetrate the markets thus building such laboratories will enable them to run tests from their regions and get better results.

The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Trade, Agriculture, and Livestock Ms Mariam Ditopile, made the statement recently during the committee’s visit to the standard authority premise.

“The activities conducted by the bureau to support small and medium-sized entrepreneurs has been remarkable…I urge the management to implement laboratories to easy access to them,” said Ms Ditopile.

She said the government through the Ministry of Industry has always been optimistic about enabling entrepreneurs including building modern laboratories abiding with global standards to promote quality productions such that by enabling other SMEs from other places, matching with the government motives.

The Ministry’s Deputy, Mr Exaud Kigahe promised the committee that the ministry will take the advice into consideration to ensure that entrepreneurs are still being supported to enable them reach their goals.

TBS’s Director General Dr Athuman Ngenya said the standard authority has the obligation of endeavouring quality productivity to both local and imported commodities such that enabling the SMEs to verify their products is what the bureau will always do.