FDA launches a special market monitoring program: A specific market surveillance program has been established by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) office in Sunyani, which oversees the Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo Regions, to crack down on vendors selling fraudulent, unlicensed, and contaminated goods.
Francisca Patoah Agyarko, a principal regulatory officer at the office, stated that as part of the campaign, Authority employees made sporadic trips to other marketplaces to additionally examine the production and expiry dates of cosmetics, food, and drug products.
“This is to help rid the market of fake, unregistered, expired and adulterated products to protect the public,” she stated in an interview in Sunyani with the Ghana News Agency (GNA).
The initiative, according to Ms. Agyarko, was necessary since the region’s polarized Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire borders were making it easier to smuggle some unhealthy goods into the nation.
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She advised customers to exercise caution and make an effort to look for the FDA emblems and expiration dates whenever they planned to purchase anything, especially oil, rice, canned goods, and prescriptions.
“We need the collaborative help of everyone to eliminate the market of contaminated products,” the Senior Regulatory Officer said in a separate plea to the public to tell the Authority of any dealers they suspect of smuggling food items.
