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How AFRIMETS members and programmes strengthen laboratories, protect consumers and open trade. Each story records what was done, who it reached and the difference it made.
A coordinated proficiency testing round brought nine mass laboratories to comparable results for the first time, opening the way to wider recognition of their calibration certificates.
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A practical course on fuel dispenser verification equipped sixty officers with harmonised procedures, and inspection findings improved within one quarter.
With peer support from AFRIMETS, a newly equipped temperature laboratory now calibrates the data loggers that guard vaccine storage across the country.
Neighbouring states adopted a common procedure for checking the quantity in pre-packaged goods, so a consignment checked once is accepted at the next border.
Machine-readable calibration certificates issued in a joint pilot showed how laboratories can exchange trusted measurement data without retyping a single value.
A six-week exchange placed early-career scientists in established electrical laboratories, and two of them now lead the voltage and resistance services at home.