Tag: Ghana Standards Authority
PMMC rebuffs Ghana Standards Authority’s gold certification
The Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) has described as “totally bogus” and of “no effect” the Ghana Standard Authority’s (GSA) move to assay, value...
PHARM88 launches fund to support distressed pharmacy students
PHARM88 Fund and Foundation have been launched with a call on Old Students Associations to endeavor to give back to their institutions to promote...
Nation does not have standards for grinding media for miners –GSA
Ghana is yet to have standards for local production and monitoring of Grinding Media, a crushing material widely used in the mining industry, a...
New measures to enhance paperless operations justified
The paperless port system, which has been in operation since September 2017, has been fraught with poor implementation. Freight forwarders say the system has...
GSA’s ‘war on demurrage’ is a worthy cause
Importers and exporters in the country paid US$75million in demurrages to shipping lines, and an additional GH¢48million in rent charges to various terminal operators...
24 factories earmarked for completion by 2020 in N/R
The Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry (MoTI), Mr. Robert Ahomka-Lindsay, has reiterated government’s commitment to establishing the 24 factories earmarked as part of its one...
FDA clamps down on shops with products labelled in foreign languages
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has ordered the closure of some supermarkets in the country facilitate the removal of all products labelled in...
GSA’s initiative will help stem ‘dumping’ in Ghana
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) is confident of implementing a voluntary trade facilitation scheme that will ensure products imported into the Ghanaian market meet...
GSA to implement EasyPASS to check inferior imports
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has said it is confident it will by May 1, 2018 implement the EasyPASS programme - a voluntary trade...
GSA finally ready to provide metering equipment for oil and gas...
Seven years after oil production commenced, and several years after civil society sounded the alarm, the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has said it intends...
