WROL Introduction

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India. To protect consumer’s interest, BIS operates various conformity assessment schemes. Under these schemes, BIS grants licenses/registrations to such manufacturers who are capable of producing goods conforming to relevant Indian Standards, on continuous basis. To support these schemes, which requires testing of products on regular basis for checking conformity to the relevant Indian Standards, BIS has established a network of eight laboratories.

Western Regional Office Laboratory (WROL), Mumbai, one of the 8 laboratories of Bureau of Indian Standards, has been pivotal in setting the benchmark in product testing and support to bureau’s conformity assessment schemes.