Calibration lab to be set up soon
Monday, 31 December 2007
Jasim Uddin Haroon
Bangladesh for the first time is going to set up a calibration and reference laboratory in Dhaka mainly to help ensure quality of goods meant for both domestic and export markets and accurate measurements by diagnostic centres.
The laboratory will also accredit local industrial and service sector laboratories.
"We will help the local industrial sector to ensure the chemical measurements of goods and provide methods of measurement," project director Mala Khan told the FE Sunday.
International buyers want reliable and valid results prior to shipment of goods and there is no such laboratory in the country to ensure that.
As a result, local manufacturers have to get their products calibrated from abroad. This is a time-consuming method.
Project director said when installed, the laboratory will enhance trade efficiencies and save time and money apart from upholding image of the country's products abroad.
Sources at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) said chemical measurements of the local products vary widely mainly due to the non-existence of such a national laboratory.
"You will find a varying results not only in case of diagnostic tests but also in bottled waters and medicines mainly due to the absence of such national laboratory," one senior official at the BCSIR told the FE.
The Ministry of Planning has already approved the project costing nearly Tk 240 million. The local manufacturers might get services from this within one year.
Bangladesh for the first time is going to set up a calibration and reference laboratory in Dhaka mainly to help ensure quality of goods meant for both domestic and export markets and accurate measurements by diagnostic centres.
The laboratory will also accredit local industrial and service sector laboratories.
"We will help the local industrial sector to ensure the chemical measurements of goods and provide methods of measurement," project director Mala Khan told the FE Sunday.
International buyers want reliable and valid results prior to shipment of goods and there is no such laboratory in the country to ensure that.
As a result, local manufacturers have to get their products calibrated from abroad. This is a time-consuming method.
Project director said when installed, the laboratory will enhance trade efficiencies and save time and money apart from upholding image of the country's products abroad.
Sources at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) said chemical measurements of the local products vary widely mainly due to the non-existence of such a national laboratory.
"You will find a varying results not only in case of diagnostic tests but also in bottled waters and medicines mainly due to the absence of such national laboratory," one senior official at the BCSIR told the FE.
The Ministry of Planning has already approved the project costing nearly Tk 240 million. The local manufacturers might get services from this within one year.