Tag: Ghana Standards Authority
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GSA to prosecute shop owners selling poorly labeled products
The Ghana Standards Authority(GSA) has stated that businesses which sell products with poor labeling will be made to face the law. The GSA says such products are difficult to check their country of origin as well as expiry date. The GSA conducted a random exercise in the Central Business District of Accra. Randomly selecting some…
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Ghana Standards Authority closes down two Chinese plastic companies
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has shut down two plastic producing companies which are owned by some Chinese nationals. The companies which were shut down after a swoop exercise by the GSA failed to meet regulatory standards. The factories which are both operating without the required license are located at Sakaman near Dansoman. The GSA…
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Fake electrical gadgets: Retailers indict Standards Authority
The Ghana Electrical Dealers Association (GEDA) has strongly refuted the report by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) that 96 % of electrical products sold on the market are substandard. This follows an exercise by the GSA which showed that only 7 out of the 204 electrical items they tested on the market were of standard.…
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Standards Authority sets bribery rules with new committee
The Ghana Standards Authority in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry has inaugurated a 22 member committee to oversee the Anti-bribery System Standard in Accra. The Committee’s mandate is to study the International Standard Organization (ISO) 371001 system to determine if it can be adopted for the country as a standard against bribery…
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Standards Authority to check cheating with new scales
By 2020, you should expect to have all products you buy on the market to be weighed to ascertain the correct weight of the product you take home. This is because the Ghana Standards Authority has indicated that it will soon begin the distribution of weighing scales to traders in various markets for the measurement…
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Ghana Standards Authority suspends EasyPass programme
The Ghana Standards Authority has stated that it has suspended the implementation of the EasyPass Programme. This follows a publication that the implementation of the programme will commence on May 1st 2018. According to the publication, the EasyPass Programme is aimed at ensuring that some selected products imported into Ghana meet the required standards to…
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Standards Authority clamps down on substandard electrical gadgets
The Ghana Standards Authority has served notice it will confiscate all substandard electrical gadgets and equipment. The authority has also warned it will pursue and sanction appropriately, persons who deliberately engage in the dumping of such products onto the Ghanaian market. The caution forms part of moves to develop and enforce standardization on the Ghanaian…
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Standards Authority to clamp down on fake cement
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has disclosed to Citi Business News it will this week embark on a massive market inspection on the sale of cement. It follows efforts by the Authority to rid the markets of all substandard goods. According to the Director General of the GSA, Professor Alex Dodoo the exercise is also…