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FDB launches Clean Market Project
Accra, July 17, Ghanadot/GNA - The Food and Drugs Board (FDB)
on Thursday launched the Clean Market Project to showcase a
model market where good sanitation and food handling
practices could promote food safety.
When the principles applied for the pilot project are
successful, it would be rolled out in other markets, Mr.
Kofi Essel, Head, Inspectorate, Food Division, FDB said in
Accra on Thursday as part of the on-going Sixth National
Food Safety Week. It is on the theme: "Clean Market, Safe
Food, A Healthy People.”
Organised by the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) the week-long
activities include a series of seminars for market women and
market queens, market administrators, environmental health
officers on market sanitation and safe food handling
practices.
It is to address the problems of unhygienic environment,
improper agricultural practices at all stages of the food
chain, lack of preventive controls in food processing,
misuse of agro-chemicals and use of contaminated raw
materials, which pose health hazards to the health of the
population.
Explaining the modalities for the project, Mr. Essel, said
it would be preceded by a hygiene competition among the
major markets within Greater Accra Region and Kasoa in the
Central Region.
He said the month for the assessment would be communicated
to the market administrators but the exact days would be
unannounced after which a winner would be announced and
enrolled into the project.
GNA
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