13 December 2005
Sub-standard X-mas lights, decors flooding local stores
THE Department of trade and Industry has fielded inspection teams in all markets in Pangasinan to check on stores selling sub-standard Christmas lights and decorations.
Daria Mingaracal, DTI provincial officer, said the inspection is intended to protyect the buying public from materials of sub-standard quality that could endanger their lives and properties.
Stressing that the standard Christmas lights and decors have corresponding ‘PS’ mark on their labels, Mingaracal called on the public to be careful when buying these materials in order to avoid fire as what happened in some places in the past.
Informed that sub-standard Christmas lights and decors may now be flooding the markets here, Mingaracal ordered the DTI inspection teams to seize all sub-standard materials on sale in every store.
Mingaracal said the inspection teams have so far only been warning storeowners not to sell materials without the required PS mark that they may have obtained from fly-by-night suppliers.
She advised storeowners to return these materials to their suppliers or else have these changed with the standard materials
Storeowners ignoring this warning can be subjected to another inspection by the team to catch them on the spot and impose outright the corresponding penalties, she said.
Daria Mingaracal, DTI provincial officer, said the inspection is intended to protyect the buying public from materials of sub-standard quality that could endanger their lives and properties.
Stressing that the standard Christmas lights and decors have corresponding ‘PS’ mark on their labels, Mingaracal called on the public to be careful when buying these materials in order to avoid fire as what happened in some places in the past.
Informed that sub-standard Christmas lights and decors may now be flooding the markets here, Mingaracal ordered the DTI inspection teams to seize all sub-standard materials on sale in every store.
Mingaracal said the inspection teams have so far only been warning storeowners not to sell materials without the required PS mark that they may have obtained from fly-by-night suppliers.
She advised storeowners to return these materials to their suppliers or else have these changed with the standard materials
Storeowners ignoring this warning can be subjected to another inspection by the team to catch them on the spot and impose outright the corresponding penalties, she said.
