Inmetro want to end up with fragile glasses
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Saulo Luz
Products should be compulsorily seal of the court and follow minimum standards of quality
Who ever has trouble to drink water or a cup of coffee in a plastic cup of bad quality and unsteadily, you just tearing or crushing? These problems should diminish: in short all the plastic cups necessarily have to have the seal of the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Inmetro), and quality assurance.
The agency is already developing a certification program to establish mandatory minimum standards of safety and quality for the manufacture of disposable cups. "We have received the ombudsman, a series of complaints from users of plastic cups claiming that the product does not meet minimum quality standards to fulfill its primary function: to keep the liquid inside the cup. The cups are so thin that they tear up and melt when the drink is hot, "explains Gustavo Kuster, division manager of programs for conformity assessment Inmetro.
In 2004, the Program Analysis Products, coordinated by the Quality Management Institute, examined 12 brands of glasses of 200ml and 50ml and reproved 11 marks.
The high rate of non-compliance led to a drive in search of improvement measures for the product. The Federal Prosecutor's Office met with producers and landed a term of Conduct Adjustment (TAC), where companies are committed to adapting products to the standard technique of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) used in the product (NBR 14,865: 2002).
In 2007, revaluation of the institute showed that the situation had improved somewhat, 60% of cups of 50ml and 69% 200ml cups were being sold outside the standards set by the standard. The major problem encountered was with respect to the minimum mass that the product must have to be tougher.
Now, with the compulsory certification of the product will be obliged to adopt the standard and pageantry of Inmetro seal - that will help the consumer and the surveillance state (in Sao Paulo is the Ipem-SP) to identify the disposable plastic cups that are settled.
It is expected that the regulation is in force from July 2010 and thereafter, manufacturers will have one year to adapt the product and ensure safer glasses and resistant to consumers. "We are creating a technical committee to begin work. Since the beginning of next year we should put the rules on public consultation, "says Kuster. Once this is done, manufacturers can now begin certification of its products. "How is a cumbersome process, is usually set a deadline of 1 or 2 years for manufacturers to adjust. After that, may only be sold plastic cups with the seal of Inmetro "he explains.
The organization that represents the manufacturers agree with the need for certification for the glasses. "A lot of companies are already prepared and others are already preparing. If you are not doing this, you have to prepare. It is a matter of choice but of necessity, "says Merheg Cachum, president of the Brazilian Plastics Industry (Abiplast).
MINIMUM STANDARD
'As today there is no regulation requiring the industry to follow the rules of ABNT, the manufacturer does what you want "
GUSTAVO KUSTER, DO INMETRO
Source: Infomoney
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