Abu Dhabi leads the quality assurance scene under the slogan “Safe Markets for Consumers”

Under the slogan “Safe Markets for Consumers,” the Emirate of Abu Dhabi continues to affirm its leadership in ensuring the quality and safety of products traded through sales outlets in local markets, based on its keenness to enhance the quality of services and products and ensure that they are free of substances that may pose a threat to public health.

The relevant authorities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi play a pivotal role in enhancing oversight of local markets and ensuring the quality of traded products, as the Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council works in coordination with governmental and semi-governmental bodies to ensure that products and services conform to approved standards.

The Council is keen to ensure the safety of products traded in Abu Dhabi markets, by monitoring the products to ensure their compliance with their specifications and technical regulations, as samples are taken and examined in the Council’s laboratories.

The Council continuously seeks to develop, improve and sustain its services, by adopting and implementing the best international methodologies and practices, and making optimal use of available resources.

The Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council achieved positive performance indicators in its operational sectors during the third quarter of 2024, which reflects its continued commitment to strengthening supervision over local markets and ensuring the quality of products and services. These results are a translation of the Council’s efforts to support the local economy and protect consumer rights, in cooperation with… Concerned authorities in the emirate.

According to data issued by the Council, during the aforementioned period, the Markets and Consumer Services Sector inspected 31,627 products to verify their compliance with specifications, and withdrew 33 products from the markets for not conforming to the required specifications and standards, while 14 products were corrected.

The Council’s Market and Consumer Services Sector verified 3,750 legal measuring instruments during the third quarter, and the total number of verified packages reached about 306 packages.

The Council’s Central Testing Laboratory carried out 125,481 laboratory tests in the various fields of testing it provides, including food, liquids and water, medicines, medical equipment, building and construction materials, transformer oils, environment, agriculture and cosmetics. According to the data, laboratory tests for water recorded the largest share of the total tests carried out by the Central Testing Laboratory during the third quarter of the year, as it carried out about 66,157 laboratory tests for water, followed by tests for food and liquids with 44,750 tests.

The laboratory recorded a noticeable increase in the number of laboratory tests of environmental samples during the same period, as tests in this field amounted to about 8,027 laboratory tests.

These indicators reflect the Council’s keenness to intensify efforts to preserve the environment, through periodic examination of environmental samples.