The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has deployed a team of well-trained Trading Standards Inspectors (TSIs) to conduct market surveillance in various markets, supermarkets and filling stations to ensure that patrons get value for money.

The Trading Standards Inspectors have been deployed in Accra, Tema, Takoradi, Kumasi and other major towns and cities to look out for substandard products, unapproved products and fake products, among others, to ensure that marketers do not cash in on unsuspecting buyers and shoppers during the Christmas season and beyond.

The Director-General of the GSA, Professor Alexander Dodoo, who led the team's activities in Accra last weekend told the Daily Graphic that all the TSIs had received police training, undergone criminal background checks and had been absorbed into permanent employment for the exercise. "Every one of them has had their criminal records checked, their fingerprints taken into the police record system before, by law, I appointed them and published their names in the gazettes," Prof.

Dodoo said.