In recent years, mineral water manufacturing plants have been springing up all over Guinea. In several districts of Conakry and around, the wealthy are digging boreholes in their homes and transforming them into an industrial unit. Faced with this situation, the Minister of Trade, Small and Medium Enterprises admits the inability of her department to have control of it.
“It must be recognized that we have difficulties in this sector. Today we do not have a list of all these diversified water companies in the market”, hammered Friday, the Minister Louopou Lamah, in front of the national advisers of the transition.
In the continuation of his communication on this subject which worries more than one Guinean, Louopou Lamah recalls that any water to be put on the market for consumption first returns to the National Quality Control Office. Thanks to this quality control body, “in 2022 we were able to analyze 1,095 samples of mineral water on the market. This is to tell you that we were really on the ground to limit these waters and put these clandestine units out of harm’s way. I have also prohibited any issuance of approvals for the establishment and production of mineral water in any form. Whether bottled or bagged.
Asked whether there is a regulatory policy in this sector, Minister Louopou Lamah said: “We are working with the industrial units that produce the water sachets and even the union of producers and consumers of water in sachets and bottles to be able to dismantle them because it is still too much. We do not control the list of mineral water manufacturing plants. But those that have been identified have been analyzed and we are hard at work to extend this to the national territory. »
