EXPIRED FOOD PRODUCTS ON SALE

It has come to the attention of Ashanti Today 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 unwholesome manufactured edible products from the system. 

The FDA has since the beginning of the year undertaken series of market surveys during which unwholesome products still on the shelves of wholesale and retail outlets were impounded with the hope that the market would be rid of such dangerous items. 

However, during refreshment after a public event held in one of the rural communities in the Bosomtwe district of the Ashanti region recently, some of the canned drinks served the patrons had expired two months earlier. Unfortunately, when the anomaly was detected by Ashanti Today's Reporter that covered the event, most of the beneficiaries of the goodies had either finished consuming the expired drinks or left for their respective destinations. 

To ascertain the prevalence of the availability of such unwholesome products on the market, checks were done at the New Agogo Community Market in the Asokwa Municipality where wholesalers and retailers confirmed the problem. 

In an interview with the Ashanti Regional Head of the Food and Drugs Authority, Mrs. Norla Narkie Teilarbi conceded that, 'there could be still some unwholesome food products on sale'. The FDA Regional Head warned that, with few weeks to the Christmas festivities coupled with the frequency of social events to run-off the year, consumers must be extremely careful about what they buy and consume at functions giving particular attention to manufacturing and expiry dates as well as contents of their preferred products. 

Mrs. Teilarbi warned also retailers especially to stop exposing manufactured food products in tins and cans as well as purified drinking water to direct sunlight in order not to tamper with the wholesomeness of the items.