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Regional experts studying strategies to prevent dangerous goods trade

Apr 23, 2014 News

 

Regional authorities are moving to meet later this week to mull strategies to prevent dangerous goods from entering its member states.
According to the CARICOM Secretariat, its Rapid Alert System for Information Exchange on Dangerous Goods (CARREX) will be the focus of the Seventh Meeting of Consumer Affairs, in Jamaica of a two-day forum, starting tomorrow.
CARREX is part of a CARICOM Secretariat project, funded by the European Union under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) and is intended to boost consumer protection and confidence and to improve the quality of products entering and trading on the regional market.
“The CARREX programme will ensure that dangerous goods entering the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) could be tracked and removed from the market.”
The goods cover a wide range of product categories including toys, motor vehicles, jewellery and furniture. In the coming months, the programme will support CARICOM’s members to develop their national warning systems to improve market surveillance of non-food consumer goods.
“Non-governmental organisations will also benefit from capacity building to accelerate regional consumer participation in this programme.”
CARICOM said that the meeting in Jamaica will serve both  as a platform on which to assess the performance of the CARREX  programme to date, as well as to heighten awareness and to strengthen the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.
The meeting convened by the CARICOM Secretariat includes representatives from the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It will also be attended by representatives of the Organisation of American States (OAS), who have been specially invited to discuss cooperation and collaboration of the CARREX into the OAS Rapid Alert System for Exchange of Information (RAPEX) and Consumer Safety and Health Network (CSHN) for countries in the hemisphere.
The meeting will have implications for Guyana as a CARICOM member. There have been complaints of poor quality or even toys that are made with banned materials entering the country. However, very little is known of the control mechanisms in place to protect consumers.

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