Don’t Buy Farmers Deli Vienna
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says the Farmers Deli Vienna product is infested with the dangerous listeriosis and has therfore warned Ghanaians not to patronise it. Listeria monocytogenes is...
Tag: food safety
FDA Bans Importation of Enterprise Foods Products
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is raising alarm that food products containing deadly listeriosis bacteria may have found their way onto the Ghanaian market. It has therefore intensified its...
USAID Partners Gov’t To Promote Food Safety To Boost Trade
Last Wednesday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture hosted a forum to review progress made on the development of a pilot food...
FDA Embarks On Clean-Up Exercise At Aboabo Market
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has embarked on a clean-up exercise to climax the Food Safety Sensitization Week Programme at Aboabo Market in Tamale. The Programme dubbed ‘Enhancing Food...
UNIDO Implements Technical Assistance To SMEs In Selected Value Chains
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has started providing technical support to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and companies producing for exports in Ghana. The...
US Will Not Resume Brazil Beef Imports Until Food Safety Addressed
The United States will not resume imports of beef from Brazil until food safety issues have been addressed, US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Monday. Purdue met with his Brazilian...
Not Lovin It! McDonald’s Shuts 41 of Its 55 Delhi Restaurants
McDonald's India said on Thursday that it has temporarily closed 41 restaurants in Delhi due to expired licenses in a major blow to the brand's ambitions in the fast-growing Indian market. The...
McDonald’s Shuts 41 Delhi Restaurants Over Expired Licenses
McDonald's India said on Thursday it has temporarily closed 41 restaurants in Delhi due to expired licenses in a major blow to the brand's ambitions in the fast-growing Indian market. The American...
‘Kaakro’ Made With Rotten Plantain Can Give You Cancer
A former dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor George Tawia Odamtten, has cautioned the public against eating ‘kaakro’, mashed plantain, made into balls and...
How the FDA Solved Puzzling Adulterated Rice Mystery
Social media has been awash with various reports accompanied with images, indicating the circulation of plastic rice on Ghanaian markets. However, The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has rubbished...
There Is No Plastic Rice On the Ghanaian Market – FDA Asserts
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has categorically denied rumours that there is plastic rice on the Ghanaian market. Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra on Friday, June 23, 2017,...
US Halts Brazil Beef Imports After Failed Safety Tests
The United States announced Thursday a halt to all imports of fresh beef from Brazil, the world's second-largest producer, citing "recurring" concerns after large shipments failed food safety tests....
US Halts Brazil Beef Imports, Citing Food Safety Concerns
The United States announced on Thursday a halt to all imports of fresh beef from Brazil, the world's second-largest producer, citing "recurring" food safety concerns. The ban will remain in place...
Experts Say Sino-China Relations Revolves Around Competition and Cooperation
Competition and cooperation have become the new normal between China and the US, said experts attending a think tank seminar in the US on Monday (US time), warning that bilateral ties will develop...
FDA To Commence Food Safety Enforcement Exercise
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) would commence a food safety enforcement exercise and food vendors who do not comply with the laws and standards of food safety will be imprisoned or fined. Ms....
Blockchain Seen As Tool In Food Safety
The food industry is turning to the same technology used by virtual currencies to strengthen food safety and inventory management by tracking meats and crops from farm to table. Working with IBM,...
UNIDO Commissions Ultra-Modern Soil & Fertilizer Testing Lab In Ghana
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Switzerland government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has commissioned an ultra-modern...
FDA Working To Discourage Growers Use of Polluted Irrigation Sources
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is working with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to discourage growers who use polluted sources of irrigation. A Joy News documentary last week...
FDA Seizes Tonnes of ‘unwholesome’ Products For Destruction
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Eastern Region has confiscated three tonnes of unwholesome products from shops and selling points across the Region. The exercise is to sanitize the market...
Ghana Makes Strides In Cashew Production
Ghana has been announced as one of the leading countries making strides in the research and production of cashew with an estimated eight hundred kilos per hectares. This was announced by the...