Ghana Standards Board Is 40

Mrs Gifty Ohene-Konadu, Deputy Minister for Trade, Industry, Private Sector Development and President's Special Initiative, yesterday called for the strengthening of the Ghana Standards Board (GSB), to become a world-class standards setting institution.
She said standard was a fundamental and common acceptance to success of every country's development and that was what GBS should be helped to achieve.
Speaking at the launch of the 40th anniversary of GSB in Accra, the Deputy Minister explained that ensuring product and service specifications underpinned international trade and that enabled trillions of dollars of goods and services to flow across borders regardless of language barriers of business parties.
The 40th anniversary is under the theme: 'Setting the Pace for Standards and Quality' and it recognises standards as the linchpin of the country's effort at industrialisation and integration into global economy.
Mrs Ohene-Konadu recognised the achievements of GSB since its establishment in promoting standardisation to local enterprises by introducing standards and specifications and indicated that despite their achievements there was more to be done, especially at the moment that Ghana was implementing programmes and projects aimed at launching Ghana into the league of agro-industrial and middle income countries.
Mrs Ohene-Konadu noted that the Ministry would soon undertake a nationwide sensitisation and educational campaign on the use of bar codes by exporters in planning and execution of their export orders.
Mr Adu Darkwa, Executive Director of GSB, said standards and standardisation remained one of the priorities in the efforts to achieve economic growth and sustainable development.
He said the Board's vision was to become the leading national standards body in Africa to complement the goal of Championing African Excellence and contribute towards the enhancement of quality of life of Ghanaians.

Ghana General News of Saturday, 11 August 2007 - Ghana Standards Board Is 40