Toilet paper leaves consumers short

"NRCS has seized all the non-compliant toilet paper manufactured by Riverside Distributors and Comfort Toilet Paper Manufacturing and ordered the manufacturers to immediately stop selling [it]," spokesman for the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications Jaco Marneweck said in a statement.

The toilet paper was found at a Spar in Randfontein and was manufactured at Riverside Distributors. Riverside manufacturer Frank Ferreira confirmed his toilet paper was under investigation by the NRCS.

But Ferreira said he and his company were in consultations with their lawyers and would not take the accusations sitting down.

The NRCS said the toilet paper was too short, by as much as 46%, and lacked perforations. By regulation it should be 500 sheets in length.

"Unfortunately a lot of the unscrupulous manufacturers don't put perforations into sheet sizes," lamented Marneweck.

Perforations allowed the paper to be easily torn and also helped the regulator to measure it.

Ferreira said the lack of perforations were due to a problem with the machines, something all manufacturers of toilet paper dealt with.

Marneweck maintained it was important to protect toilet paper users from being left short.

Source: Sapa

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