GSA Clamps down on manufacturers of illegal insecticides

The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) together with a team of police men and the media over the weekend raided some spots in Odokor where illegal insecticides are produced.
The exercise resulted in the arrest of some of the producers of these harmful insecticides and seizure of some of the products which will be tested by GSA to know its components.
The Head of the GSA task force that carried out the raid, George Kojo Anti told the media that they will be embark on a similar exercise with a joint team made up of FDA and GSA to halt the manufacturing of these unauthorized products.
He described the activities of the manufacturers as horrendous and deadly than activities of terrorists.
George Kojo Anti also added that a joint team of personnel from GSA, FDA and EPA will visit the area again to ensure that those arrested and all the closed shops will not resume their unapproved activities.
Details
Sunday’s raid embarked on by a joint team made up of GSA, the police and the media was aimed at clamping down on illegal activities of insecticides manufacturers based in Odorkor.
The GSA team had earlier on Friday January 17 carried out a similar exercise but Sunday’s exercise resulted in the arrest of two people namely rukaya Issah and Francis Attabah who claimed they were simply caretakers and not manufacturers.
The worrying trend about their activities was the fact that they were operating in residential areas thereby threatening the health of residents living close to where these toxic products were produced.
Another concern was the fact that the products had labeling with GSA logo although it had not been certified and approved by the GSA.
The affected youth told the Atinka news team that they were not against the exercise by GSA however, they were worried that the exercise will affect their livelihood since they had no other source of income and should it happen that they lose their livelihood they will resort to robbery.
Some residents also shared some of the health conditions they had been battling with which included body rash and asthma.
 
Ghana| Atinkaonline.com| Celestina Damoah

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