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FDB says it is winning war on sale of
unwholesome good
Ho, Dec. 21, Ghanadot/GNA - The Food And Drugs Board (FDB)
says it winning the war against the sale of unwholesome
goods, especially edibles.
This, the Board, says is indicated by the dwindling volumes
of expired and unregistered goods being seized in the shops
countrywide.
Mr Eric Owusu, Regulatory Officer at the Volta and Eastern
Zonal Office of the Board, said this on Friday just before
edibles worth Gh 3,336.2 were burnt at the refuse disposal
site of the Ho Municipal Area off the Ho-Aflao highway.
He said the goods, which included rice, biscuits, alcoholic
beverages and soft drinks and unregistered bottled 'shittor'
were seized from traders within the last six months in
various parts of the Volta Region.
Mr Owusu said the reducing volume of seized goods meant that
the FDB's onslaught on recalcitrant traders, going along
with education, was yielding good results as traders now
voluntarily remove expired goods from shelves.
On smuggling, he said the multiple legal and illegal entry
points was posing a big challenge to the FDB as many traders
come into Ghana with little volumes of products which make
monitoring difficult.
Mr Owusu said consumer cooperation was also high as people
who hitherto considered reporting traders selling
unwholesome items as betrayal, now regarded that as a duty
to the state.
GNA
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