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Ensuring Product Compliance: SGS Pre-Shipment Inspection Services

Learn how SGS offers Product Conformity Assessment to verify compliance with regulations, ensuring quality, health, safety, and environmental standards for global trade. Discover case studies on electrical plugs, shelf life, and labeling in Kenya.

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Ensuring Product Compliance: SGS Pre-Shipment Inspection Services

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  1. Who is SGSEstablished in France 1878Headquarters moved to Geneva during WW1Mid 20th century diversified into inspection, testing and verification services across a variety of sectors including industrial, minerals, oil, gas and chemicals SGS South Africa was established in 1949 Since the 1960s, Pre – Shipment Inspections have formed a major part of our activities in South Africa Governments & Institutions (GIS) Division PROTECT we help authorities ensure suppliers comply with quality, health, safety and environment regulations

  2. What is Product Conformity Assessment (PCA) • PCA is a solution designed to ensure that products meet the specific requirements set by a regulatory authority in the importing country, normally represented by the country’s national standards body • SGS have PCA contracts with Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Kuwait, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda & Zanzibar to verify compliance of products in country of supply prior to shipment • These checks are normally done through product tests and/or reviews of existing test reports • Other critical checks are done during physical inspection, such as labels and marking requirements, shelf life information, consumer information / instructions, etc.

  3. Product Conformity Assessment (PCA) • The typical conformity items being checked on products concern the overall safety (e.g. lead on toys), human health impact (e.g. heavy metals in food) and environmental effect (non-CFC goods) • Exporters have challenges to submit test reports which comply with the testing requirements / parameters of the importing country • Example, packaging (plastic materials and articles) intended for food contact requires overall migration testing, this is to ensure that no chemicals will migrate into the actual food in the bags • The scary part of one particular case is that the manufacturer (of plastic food packaging) did not know what a migration test was

  4. Case Study – Electrical plugs KENYA • Appliances with cord must be supplied with plugs compliant to BS 1363 • Appliances with cord but with plugs not complying with BS 1363 can be provided with compliant to BS 1363-5 “fused conversion plug” • Exceptions are made to appliances operating under current above 13A • If above can not be comply with, then these appliances must be removed from the invoice and these goods cannot be shipped

  5. Case Study – Shelf Life KENYA(all imports with a limited shelf life shall have more than seventy five percent (75%) shelf life for food items and 50% for non-food items from the date of expected landing in Kenya)

  6. Case Study – Labelling KENYA • All labelling of packaging of imports shall include English and/or Swahili • At time of inspection the language on the label found be all in Chinese • Corrective action – wording must be translated and goods must be re-labelled. Re-inspection must be done prior to shipment to verify compliance

  7. KZN Export Week 2017 • SGS

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