thereby facilitating easier trade among businesses without encountering technical barriers. Through the Caricom Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality CROSQ member states are given the opportunity to contribute to the drafting of these standards, ensuring the development of the most comprehensive documents. The Guyana National Bureau of Standards GNBS has, over the years, contributed to the development of many regional standards, some of which were later adopted as national standards. In keeping with its responsibilities as a National Standards Body NSB the GNBS is currently inviting stakeholders to attend the public consultation session on two Draft CARICOM Standards. These are the DCRS 82 202X  Cocoa Bean Quality- Sampling Requirements and the DCRS 83 202X  Cocoa Bean Quality  Specifications. The “DCRS 82:202X, Cocoa bean quality  Sampling requirements” covers the selection and preparation of samples in a way that accurately reflects the overall quality and characteristics of the entire bean lot, ensuring that subsequent quality assessments and analyses are reliable and meaningful. This standard aims to contribute to the reduction of challenges, including sampling bias and systematic errors, associated with obtaining a representative sample from cocoa bean lots for quality assessment. It is intended for use by producers, exporters, laboratories, and regulators. Meanwhile, the “DCRS 83 202X, Cocoa Bean Quality  Specifications was developed to contribute to the improvement of the quality of regionally produced cocoa beans. This standard is intended to support the drive towards regional quality improvement for cocoa produced by CARICOM Member States. It is designed for use by producers, laboratories, quality assessors, processors and regulators. The draft documents are available on the GNBS’ website gnbsgy.org  Standardisation  Standards for Public Comments. (Kaieteur News)