The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has issued a warning to food vendors, urging them to ensure the safety of the food they sell for human consumption.
During an interview with Citi News, John Laryea Odai Tettey, the Ashanti Regional Head of the FDA, emphasized the importance of food vendors registering their businesses and keeping records of all their purchases.
To ensure compliance, the FDA has joined forces with the environmental health units of the Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to conduct regular inspections at the vending points of food vendors.
“We have collaborated with the environmental health unit of the Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and inspected the vending points as well as the food preparation points of these street food vendors. The advice for the vendors is that you will have to ensure that whatever you put out there for sale is safe for human consumption,” Mr Tettey said.
He added, “If it’s the process of food, then you have to make sure that it has to be registered, and you must always take the receipts or purchase documents from wherever you get it from,” the Ashanti Regional Head of the Food and Drugs Authority entreated.”
Compliance with the given directives is crucial, as emphasized by him, and failure to adhere to them by food vendors will lead to sanctions imposed by the FDA.