A special conference on the standards and practices used by grading laboratories in the industry will be held on 6 May, the first day of the 2015 CIBJO Congress, according to CIBJO.
"Over the past two decades, changing business conditions and evolving consumer expectations have resulted in diamond, coloured stone and pearl laboratory reports to become necessities in our trade," said CIBJO president Gaetano Cavalieri and vice president Roland Naftulein their invitation to participants. "But while their use is universal, the standards and systems according to which they are compiled are not. Inconsistencies in grading, reporting, identification and determination of country of origin are often widespread between laboratories, and even sometimes within the same organisations. This is creating significant problems for our trade and, if not contained, the gravity of the situation will seriously affect consumer confidence at every level."
The congress will also talk about the creation of an international committee of global gemmological laboratory representatives to discuss methods that could result in more consistent and reliable gemmological laboratory reports.Discussion of benchmarks for gemmological laboratories, and creating a system of dispute resolution will also be discussed, said CIBJO.
The 2015 CIBJO Congress will take place in Salvador, Brazil, 4-6 May 2015.
CIBJO Congress: www.congress2015.cibjo.org
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