Desist from selling unwholesome products to consumers— Francisca Obeng

Francisca Obeng shares a word of caution to traders to cease from selling unwholesome products to consumers or will be at the wrong side of the law

The central regional director for the food and drugs authority, Francisca Obeng in an interview with a local television station indicated that, there’s an alarming sale of unauthorized products on the market.

According to Francisca Obeng, the central regional food and drugs authority has disposed off 4.8 tonnes of unregistered, unwholesome and expired products at the Nkanfoa landfill site in cape coast.

The items destroyed consisted of 1.6 tonnes of herbal medicines, 1.3 tonnes of food products, 0.28 tonnes of cosmetics, 1.45 tonnes of allopathic medicines and 0.12 tonnes of household chemicals.

Further, majority of these products were retrieved through market surveillance exercise within the region while other products were also brought to be destroy voluntarily which is permitted by law, part 7, section 132 of the public health Act 2012, Act 851.

The central regional director for the food and drugs authority, Francisca Obeng iterated the fact that, it’s unlawful as a retailer to issue unregistered, unwholesome and expired products to a consumer hence, any wholesaler or retailer who goes contrary to the law won’t be pardon but rather, would be made to face the law.