GSA urges shift to use standardized measurement

The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) is urging increasing shift towards the use of modern measurement methods to prevent cheating of consumers.

Mr. Samuel Kofi Frimpong, Head of the Ashanti Regional Office of the Authority, said everything must be done to conform to globally accepted standards, which met specified degree of accuracy and precision.

The call coincided with the celebration of this year’s international day of metrology under the theme: “Measurements in a dynamic world”.

The day is held annually to highlight the need to maintain appropriate measuring standards to ensure fair trade.

Mr. Frimpong, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said the GSA was scaling up public education campaign to assist the people to move away from the old ways of doing things.

It was targeting the markets, shopping malls and filling stations to help them to conform to worldwide measuring standards.

This, he noted, involved encouraging them to procure the right measurement instruments.

He advised consumers against doing business with retailers and entities that continued to use unorthodox measurement methods.