Seychelles Bureau of Standards

The Seychelles Bureau of Standards (SBS) was established under the SBS Act 1987 to provide standardisation in relation to commodities, processes and practices. The SBS Act 1987 was subsequently repealed and replaced by SBS Act 2014 to make better provision for the development, promotion and maintenance of standardisation in industry and commerce.

The Bureau is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Investment, Industry & Entrepreneurship Development.

SBS has a workforce of 56 employees ranging from technicians, to scientists and engineers who works as a team in a systematic approach in order to offer a quality service to all customers.

Since its formation, SBS has striven to promote the concept of quality throughout the country by the development of various standard documents which are used as guidelines or even have become laws of Seychelles.

The organisation is registered to ISO 9001:2015 for the administration of:

• Laboratory Testing
• Metrology
• Product Certification
• Development and implementation of standards
• Science and Technology information management and dissemination.

Fields of competence:

A- Food Chemistry:

• Fish and fisheries products: determination of histamine – accredited
• Fish and Fishery products: determination of Cadmium, lead and mercury - accredited
• Honey: determination of Ash, Insoluble matter, HMF, Moisture, Brix, Acidity, pH, Diastase, Proline, Invertase, Conductivity.
• Cinnamon: determination of Eugenol, Cinnamic aldehyde, foreign matter, moisture, volatile oil, ash, acid-insoluble ash.
• Coconut Oil: determination of Iodine value, free fatty acid, saponification value, density.
• Drinking water: determination of Chloride, fluoride, nitrate, nitrite, sulphate, pH, conductivity – accredited
• Drinking water: determination of Trace metals and physic-chemicals.

B- Food Microbiology:

• Food and Drinking water: Aerobic Plate Count (APC), E.coli, Total coliform, Staphylococcus Aureus, Salmonella species
• Environmental Samples (Swabs): APC, E. coli, Total coliform, yeast & mold
• Fish Oil: E. coli, Total Coliform, APC
• Fish meal: Salmonella, Staphylococcus Aureus