The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) last Thursday closed down some four supermarkets in Osu, Accra for selling unregistered products to customers.
The four shops were Hauang Jia YI Limited, Panda Mart, Jia Hua Agricultural Trade Company and Downwind Sail supermarkets.
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All four supermarkets are Chinese-owned, selling products mainly labelled in Chinese.
This actions were against the Public Health Act and LI 1541, the labelling guide, which mandated that all goods brought into the nation have English labels.
The FDA together with the police carried out the operation to lock these shops selling food, pharmaceutical drugs and cigarettes.
Additionally, the FDA will impose an administrative punishment of at least GHS25,000 on each of the offenders.
Speaking to the Ghanaian Times newspaper, the Head of Enforcement Directorate at the FDA, Mr Vigil Edward Prah-Ashun, noted that the authority would ensure that these shops re-label all their products in English.
He added that his outfit would ensure that the seized pharmaceutical drugs will not be sold to the public.
He also appealed to the general public to stop buying products not labelled in English.
The FDA states that products that are imported into the nation must be labelled in English to help consumers by providing information such as expiration dates, manufacturers, addresses, and countries of origin.
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Pharmaceutical drugs should only be sold at pharmacies and not supermarkets.
