{"id":238558,"date":"2026-07-12T07:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fda-police-arrest-6-in-swoop-on-accra-pubs-%c2%b7-for-sale-of-illicit-unregistered-products\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T05:01:15","slug":"ghana-fda-police-arrest-6-in-swoop-on-accra-pubs-%c2%b7-for-sale-of-illicit-unregistered-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fda-police-arrest-6-in-swoop-on-accra-pubs-%c2%b7-for-sale-of-illicit-unregistered-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: FDA, Police Arrest 6 in Swoop On Accra Pubs \u00b7 for Sale of Illicit, Unregistered Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, arrested six persons during an intelligence-led operation targeting the sale of illicit and unregistered products at three pubs in Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The operation, carried out last Friday, formed part of the authority&#8217;s ongoing enforcement exercise to remove unauthorised products from the market and safeguard public health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Related Articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.adsense-outer-ad-container.adsense-responsive-outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Two suspects&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607100233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, arrested six persons during an intelligence-led operation targeting the sale of illicit and unregistered products at three pubs in Accra. The operation, carried out last Friday, formed part of the authority&#8217;s ongoing enforcement exercise to remove unauthorised products from the market and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,6414,14532,4508,4509,9926,257,662,7418,54827,6397,254,26235,34027],"class_list":["post-238558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-fda","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-illicit","tag-news","tag-police","tag-products","tag-pubs","tag-sale","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swoop","tag-unregistered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}