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/ 31 August 2007

SABS unwraps audit of condom department

The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is auditing its condom department after a manager at the bureau was accused of certifying defective condoms in exchange for cash. ”On the basis of the allegations, we did an immediate check and we are covering the other companies,” the bureau’s general manager for food and health, Mike McNerney, said on Friday.

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/ 20 May 2004

Fatal shooting in SABS offices

A 26-year-old former employee of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) shot a 42-year-old woman in the head on Thursday afternoon at his former place of work and afterwards shot himself, Pretoria police said. The man was on the second floor of the SABS building in Groenkloof with the woman who was handling his file.

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/ 10 January 2001

SABS to see if cellphones fry your brain

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Pretoria | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s Bureau of Standards (SABS) has announced the purchase of equipment worth millions of rands to monitor the effects of radiation in mobile cellular telephones. SABS President Eugene Julies said the sophisticated monitoring equipment would help determine the exact radiation humans were subjected to while using cellular telephones. “Since […]