The second webinar in the second phase of the Talk Series, held on 20
December 2022, focused on standards and labelling for electric cooking devices.
In this session, emphasis was given to adopt a collaborative and
consensus-driven approach with active participation from the key stakeholders,
to understand the key aspects that are critical to developing the standards and
labelling for electric cooking devices, which help the manufacturers based in
India and globally, to supply in their domestic markets and also enable an
effective global supply chain for electric cooking devices. Aspects of safety,
ease of use and adaptability, simplified technology from the user’s
perspective, value for money and energy efficiency, and environmental
protection must be discussed in order to promote the safety aspects in locally
produced electric cooking devices or imported devices. Further performance
requirements relating to energy consumption, time requirements for cooking,
avoidance of energy wastage/energy leakage, and degradation of materials used
in the devices over a longer duration of use was also addressed and discussed.