The Ghana Standards Authority is set to launch an aggressive push to rid markets across the country of used undergarments.

There is currently a ban on the sale of used undergarments but officials say some traders have found illegal ways of still importing the goods using sophisticated packaging. 

The banned goods include brassieres, panties, handkerchiefs, singlet and mattresses. 

Deputy Executive Director in charge of Commercial services at the Authority, Kofi Nagetey said his office is consulting with the Trades Ministry ahead of a country wide initiative to arrest erring traders.

According to him, the banned goods that make it onto the market "are mostly [due to] people who bring the mattresses as padding and then they clear them and end up selling them. They put the undergarments together with shirts and trousers in a bale and through that most of them are escaping."

Kofi Nagetey noted that, "If they are escaping the inspectors at the ports, then of course we have to have a taskforce to go to the market to arrest them."