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 surveillance to confiscate and destroy some food products imported from South Africa. According to the FDA, it has received information from the South African Authorities … Read more
French cuisine comes alive in Ghana with “Goût de France” on March 21 The fourth edition of “Goût de France”, which showcases French cuisine in all its varied forms, is scheduled to take place on March 21, 2018 across 15 restaurants in Ghana. Ghana has over the years participated in the global event which is … Read more
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 Security Through Safety Food Practices’ saw some staff of the FDA clean up the market area and sensitize some market women over food safety. They … Read more
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has rubbished claims that there is a so-called plastic rice on the Ghanaian market as alleged through videos circulating on social media and elsewhere. Similar reports have surfaced in other countries in the sub-region including Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Nigeria. Indeed, in 2016, customs officials in Nigeria confiscated … Read more
It is encouraging to hear stories of how people quit their regular jobs, in some cases, high-paying jobs to start their own businesses. Despite the obvious challenges start-ups in our part of the world face, some have braced the odds and with determination and sheer passion, they are doing remarkably well which is truly inspiring. … Read more
The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), a non-governmental organization, has lauded the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) for placing a temporarily ban on Adonko Bitters, an alcoholic beverage. The FDA had placed a ban on Adonko Bitters after patrons of the product, due to excessive intake during a sponsored event, passed out at an “Easter … Read more
Angel Group of Companies, producers of Adonko Bitters has denied selling the alcoholic product to minors as alleged by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) recently. The FDA recently suspended the registration and advertisement licence of Angel Group of Companies for allegedly selling the alcoholic beverage to minors at a concert organised by the company … Read more
The Food and Drugs Authority has ordered Angel Group of Companies, producers of Adonko Bitters to recall the product from the market for contravening the Authority’s code on sale and advertisement of alcoholic beverages. The Authority has also slapped a fine of GH¢25,000 on the company following investigations into circumstances that led to the passing … Read more
Poor packaging in Ghana is one of the main reasons for the failure of locally manufactured food products to establish themselves in the market and compete favourably with imported ones. This fact, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), accounts for the same problem in most sub-Saharan African countries; thus improving food packaging in … Read more
Ghana is to benefit from a National Food Packaging Centre being proposed by the ‘Improving Food Packaging for Small Medium Agro-Enterprises (SAME’s) in Sub-Saharan Africa Project.’ The centre, when established would provide technical support including training, assistance in supply, designing, labelling and support to meet regulatory standards and also serve as a means of technology … Read more
Over 5,000 Senior High School (SHS) students from schools in the Greater Accra Region have benefited from Lexta Ghana Limited’s ‘Teen Care Campaign.’ The nationwide campaign from the stables of the producers and suppliers of Yazz products and Hooch Foods was launched in February 2017 with the aim of visiting SHS’ across the country to … Read more
US sporting-goods giant Nike has become the latest foreign brand to receive a high-profile rebuke from an influential Chinese consumer-affairs programme that has previously forced Apple and McDonald’s to squirm. The programme, broadcast Wednesday on World Consumer Rights Day by state-run China Central Television (CCTV), annually takes aim at alleged unethical behaviour by makers of … Read more
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) last December seized about a metric tonne of expired products from the open market, supermarkets, marts and pharmacy shops in the New Juaben Municipality. The products seized included drugs, body creams, soft and hard drinks, food products such as corned beef, tin tomatoes, mayonnaise and salad creams through an … Read more
A civil society group in the agriculture sector wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to reconsider his nominee for the agric ministry. According to Food Sovereignty Ghana the minister-designate for the sector, Dr Afriyie Osei, is not the right man to head the ministry. The communications director of the group, Edwin Kweku Andoh Baffour, said Dr Akoto … Read more
A civil society group in the agriculture sector wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to reconsider his nominee for the agric ministry. According to Food Sovereignty Ghana the minister-designate for the sector, Dr Afriyie Osei, is not the right man to head the ministry. The communications director of the group, Edwin Kweku Andoh Baffour, said Dr Akoto … Read more
The $44 billion palm oil industry, under pressure in Europe after authorities listed the edible oil as a cancer risk, has found a vocal ally in the food sector: the maker of Nutella. Italian confectionery firm Ferrero has taken a public stand in defense of an ingredient that some other food companies in the country … Read more
For more than two decades, Russia has been trying to regain its Soviet-era economic influence in Africa, but such efforts have regularly hit stumbling blocks. Policy experts and Russian authorities attribute this to inadequate knowledge of investment and economic possibilities on the continent. “As before, we cannot deny that Russian business structures have insufficient knowledge … Read more
The figure represents a 1.4 percent reduction from the 17.2 percent recorded in September this year. This is higher compared to the monthly change rate for September which was 0.2 percent. According to figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service, inflation for the food and non-alcoholic beverages reached 8.7 percent. The figure is 0.3 percentage … Read more
Unemployment is the number of people in a particular country who cannot get job. Kindly permit me space in your widely read newspaper to comment on the problem of high unemployment in Ghana. This social canker which is on the ascendency is gradually demeaning the status of Ghana. To crack this bad nut, I would … Read more
President John Mahama has taken a swipe at the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) saying the party lacks the understanding of how to build a prosperous country. The Mahama-led administration has invested massively in infrastructural projects in the last four years for which reason it believes it must be retained at the polls in … Read more