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BSJ developing cigarette warning labels for region 

THE Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) is currently developing cigarette warning labels to be adopted as the standard for the Caribbean Community (Caricom) - a move aimed at reducing tobacco consumption in the region.

"Jamaica has been given the challenge of taking the lead on regulating cigarette labelling initially and tobacco in general," Wayne Stewart, chairman of the Labelling Technical Committee explained. "We are hoping to get it out of our hands and back to CROSQ (Caricom Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality) for their final review and we believe that they will likely send it out for further comment. We will be looking at the comments. We will be assessing them as they come back to us."

Stewart said the committees hope to have a final meeting by the end of this month "to look at what needs to be done" before the proposal is sent to CROSQ for approval. Once approved, it will then be submitted to the Counsel for Trade and Economic Development for the final endorsement.

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