ZMA TO REPLACE NEW TINS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS MEDAS

 

By Daily News Reporter

 

The Zambia Metrology Agency -ZMA- says it will make standardised measuring tins mandatory.

ZMA Executive Director Humphrey Nkobeni has said that all standardized measuring containers will gradually replace the makeshift tins commonly referred to as medas in the markets and other tins that are not authorized.

He said this after a successful pilot project that was carried out as tins were distributed to selected markets across the country for those trading in beans, rice and kapenta.

He further said that the agency will first engage local manufacturers to produce the proposed measuring tins at a large scale in order for all traders to be able to have access to them