The Office of Weights and Measures (Ipem), local authority linked to the Department of Justice and Consumer Citizenship, prosecuting 20 (26%) of the 76 companies visited during Operation Efficiency, who oversaw ovens and stoves, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners and compact fluorescent lamp with integrated ballast.
The objective was to determine whether the commercially available products contain a label for energy efficiency, given the Brazilian Labeling Program (PBE), implemented by the Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (Inmetro). Under the program, products must bear labels visible to the consumer with information on energy consumption.
"Our goal is to end the mistakes and will continue efforts with the routine surveillance and special operations to step up the work," says the superintendent of Ipem, Fabiano Marques de Paula.
The inspection teams examined 19,347 products, of which 51 (0.26%) were without a label for energy efficiency: 24 washing machines, 13 refrigerators, 12 stoves and gas stoves, and two air conditioners.
The operation was performed in the cities of Sao Paulo, Guarulhos, Santo André, Bauru, Campinas, Sao Jose dos Campos, Santa Fe South, a specialty store selling white goods, and supermarkets.
Source: The Serrano
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