Section 7April 13, 1992, Sec./Art. 7

Promulgation and Adoption of Consumer Product Standards. – The concerned department shall establish consumer product quality and safety standards which shall consist of one or more of the following:

a) requirements to performance, composition, contents, design, construction, finish, packaging of a consumer product;

b) requirements as to kind, class, grade, dimensions, weights, material;

c) requirements as to the methods of sampling, tests and codes used to check the quality of the products;

d) requirements as to precautions in storage, transporting and packaging;

e) requirements that a consumer product be marked with or accompanied by clear and adequate safety warnings or instructions, or requirements respecting the form of warnings or instructions.

For this purpose, the concerned department shall adopt existing government domestic product quality and safety standards: Provided, That in the absence of such standards, the concerned department shall form specialized technical committees composed of equal number of representatives from each of the Government, business and consumer sectors to formulate, develop and purpose consumer product quality and safety standards. The said technical committees shall consult with the private sector, which may, motu proprio, develop its own quality and safety standards that shall be subject or agencies after public hearings have been conducted for that purpose; and shall likewise consider existing international standards recognized by the Philippine Government.