The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has taken a proactive step to ensure that counterfeit and expired products are removed from the market. According to Professor Alexander Dodoo, Director-General of the GSA, a team of professionals has been deployed to monitor the market and prevent the sale of substandard goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These officers, known as Trading Standards Officers (TSOs), are responsible for inspecting goods and products to verify their authenticity and value. They also provide evidence to support consumer complaints in court. The TSOs are experts in their field, with no criminal records, and are capable of accomplishing their mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The GSA’s efforts aim to protect consumers from harmful and counterfeit products, promote fair trade, and ensure that products meet acceptable standards. This initiative is part of the GSA’s enforcement drive, which was launched in 2021 to bring order to the market and protect consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Standards Authority to Kick Substandard Goods Out of the Market <\/p>\n
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has taken a proactive step to ensure that counterfeit and expired products are removed from the market. According to Professor Alexander Dodoo, Director-General of the GSA, a team of professionals has been deployed to monitor the market and prevent the sale of substandard goods.<\/p>\n
These officers, known as Trading Standards Officers (TSOs), are responsible for inspecting goods and products to verify their authenticity and value. They also provide evidence to support consumer complaints in court. The TSOs are experts in their field, with no criminal records, and are capable of accomplishing their mission.<\/p>\n
The GSA’s efforts aim to protect consumers from harmful and counterfeit products, promote fair trade, and ensure that products meet acceptable standards. This initiative is part of the GSA’s enforcement drive, which was launched in 2021 to bring order to the market and protect consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}