GBC’s Radio Ghana can report that, there are still expired food products on the market in the Ashanti region despite intensified efforts by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to clear them from the system.
The FDA has since the beginning of the year undertaken series of market surveys during which unwholesome products on the shelves of wholesale and retail outlets were impounded with the hope that the market would be rid off such dangerous items.
However, during a reception after a public event held in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti region recently, it was observed that some of the canned drinks served guests had expired two months earlier.
Unfortunately, when the anomaly was detected by a member of the GBC’s News team most people at the event had already consumed the expired drinks.
To ascertain the prevalence of the availability of such unwholesome products on the market, a survey was conducted at the New Agogo Community Market in the Asokwa Municipality where wholesalers and retailers alike confirmed the problem.
In an interview with the Ashanti Regional Head of the Food and Drugs Authority, Norla Narkie Teilarbi, she conceded that, there are still cases of unwholesome food products on sale.
The FDA Regional Head warned that, with few weeks to Christmas, consumers must be wary of expired products on the market.
Mrs. Teilarbi warned retailers to stop exposing canned products as well as bottled water to direct sunlight.
