Chinese Mattress Company Locked Up by Government Over Quality Concerns, Managers Arrested

• Ghana Standards Authority shuts down 5A Homes for producing substandard mattresses in the Greater Accra Region
• The operation aims to eliminate inferior products from the market to protect public health and the environment
• The authority said that its ongoing surveillance is to prevent substandard products from reaching consumers in retail markets

The Ghana Standards Authority has shut down a Chinese-owned mattress manufacturing company located at Dawhenya in the Greater Accra Region, for allegedly producing substandard mattresses.

The closure on May 19 forms part of the Ghana Standards Authority’s crackdown on companies producing inferior products on the Ghanaian market.

Video of the incident showed police arresting some Chinese nationals at the factory.

Graphic Online reported that the arrests included a manager at the factory.

The company was said to have resumed production illegally after the factory was shut down in October 2025 over a lack of approval from the state regulatory authority.

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Regional Manager of the Ghana Standards Authority, Clement Kubati, said his outfit was also trying to reduce the human and environmental impact on Ghanaians.

“That’s why I’m saying we’re going to make sure that we will continue with our surveillance. The information that we picked before we came here, we’re going to continue."

On May 18, the Ghana Standards Authority shut down some mattress manufacturing companies at Afienya for similar reasons.

FDA closes down 4 Chinese supermarkets

In September 2024, the FDA closed down four Chinese-owned supermarkets at Osu in Accra for selling unregistered products.

The shop's goods were labelled in Chinese. Panda Mart, Jia Hua Agricultural Trade Company, Downwind Sail, and Hauang Jia YI Limited were sanctioned shops.

The Ghanaian Times reported that a team from the FDA, in collaboration with the police, locked up these shops and fined them GH¢25,000 each.

The authority said it would supervise its supermarkets to relabel its products in English.

The shops violated the Public Health Act and the labelling guide LI 1541, which required all products imported into the country to be labelled in English.

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The authority has stressed that prod­ucts imported into the country should be written in English to allow for the identification of manufacturers, addresses, coun­tries of origin, and expiration dates, among other details, to guide the consumer.

Tobinco Pharmaceuticals beats FDA in court

YEN.com.gh also previously reported that an Accra High Court had ruled in favour of Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Limited after it was accused of importing fake medicines.

After a five-year legal battle, the company was exonerated in an Accra High Court ruling dated July 29, 2024. However, the FDA announced that it would appeal the ruling.

Source: YEN.com.gh