Forum on Consumerism and Product Standards and Safety Showcase

In celebration of the Consumer Welfare Month and observance of the Product Standards and Intellectual Property Rights week this October, the Department of Trade and Industry- Aklan will organize a Forum on Consumerism and Product Standards and Safety Showcase on14 October from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. The venue is in ACP Centrepoint, Archbishop Gabriel Reyes St., Kalibo Aklan.

Target participants are consumers coming from different sectors (government, academe, students, Pos/NGOs, business professional groups and civil society. The resource person will be from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Health (DOH) Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) and Philippine Product Safety and Quality Foundation, Inc. (PPSQFI). Exhibitors are local dealers/retailers of mandatory electrical and other hardware products.

The main objectives of these activities are to heighten public awareness about consumer rights and enhance their knowledge on the significance of standards quality and safe electrical/hardware products, as well as, the different consumer welfare advocacies of the government and other private agencies.

Induction of the newly elected officers of Altavas Consumers Organization, Numancia Consumers Organization and ASU-Kalibo Consumers Advocates Club will be on the same date of the forum. The inducting officer is Gov. Carlito S. Marquez.

The lead agency for this year’s Consumer Welfare Month Celebration is the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and this year’s theme is, “Consumers: Green Multipliers”./TE