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More than half of manufactured goods on the Ugandan market are substandard, according to the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS).

In details contained in the Annual Report 2022/23, UNBS indicated that the percentage of substandard goods on the Ugandan market had increased by 7 percent, rising from 49 percent in the 2020/21 financial year to 58 percent.

During the period, UNBS noted, it had carried out 4,537 inspections of businesses, supermarkets, warehouses, wholesale stores, and retail outlets nationwide, from which it seized 653 products, with an estimated weight of 5,707 metric tonnes, for failing minimum safety and quality standards.

However, this was below the targeted 9,000 inspections, which meant that only 50.4 percent of the routine inspections were achieved.

The seizures, the report noted, were mostly done in the central, followed by the western, while northern and eastern registered the lowest seizures.

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