Consumer Participation in Standards

Mosquito Coils are considered health hazard as one coil generates smoke equal to 70-80 cigarette smoking. If warn for harmful effects of smoking are mandatory, why not for mosquito coils? More...

A large number of lower middle class Indians still use mosquito coils in their bedrooms and houses and these are very very bad for health. See attached. Can the BIS ban this product in i...

Good discussions were initiated in this circle a month back about hospital standards by LocalCircles and BIS. Good inputs were collected. Can you please share them with us and advise how...

Dear BIS, See message from District Magistrate Noida. Coaching centers are being sealed for not following National Building Code. Since when has BIS made NBC mandatory? If not...

Let us go back to our Indian roots and create a standard where all food can be packaged in banana leaves also in addition to plastic. I was in big bazaar recently. They use so much plast...

Plastic bags less than 50 microns should not even have a standard and it should be illegal (5 crore or some very high fine or business sealed permanently) if anyone is found engaging in manufacturi...

Our builder of the society have provided Vinay make switches and modules. So whenever a switch fail we are forced to use the same make. Now frequently the switches of this make fails. As per IS sta...

I had ordered a mike online some time back. It costed a good 1200+ but I am not able to find what speaker will that mike connect into. I thought the lead would go into standard blue tooth speakers ...

Some time back there were posts on how pesticide companies are incentivising dealers of pesticides to mislead the farmers to buy and use more pesticide. This is leading to cancer such that there is...

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