Some two years after the passage of the Tobacco legislation, the Ministry of Health has finally launched a Control Council that will be tasked with ensuring compliance of the regulations . Javone Vickerie has the details .
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The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has recently seized 542 packs of cigarettes that do not meet the requirements of the National Standard “GYS 9-3:2014 Labelling of Tobacco Products” and the Tobacco Control Regulation of 2018. The items were seized from a number of sale outlets in Regions Three,…