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FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR GHANA

FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR GHANA. (CONCEPT PAPER). PRESENTED BY THE FOOD AND DRUGS BOARD. INTRODUCTION. Safe food supply is key in ensuring the health of consumers and economic progress of a country. It is also a major component of food security.

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FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR GHANA

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  1. FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR GHANA (CONCEPT PAPER) PRESENTED BY THE FOOD AND DRUGS BOARD

  2. INTRODUCTION • Safe food supply is key in ensuring the health of consumers and economic progress of a country. • It is also a major component of food security. • Ghana needs to develop and adopt strategies to ensure that total food safety management systems are installed in the food supply chain.

  3. Socio-Economic Consequence • 1.8 million death annually – WHO • 17 M US Dollars spent by GOG for treatment of foodborne illnesses in Ghana for 2006 – FAO

  4. Principal Goal of the Food Safety Management Strategy This is to reduce the health and socio-economic burden of foodborne diseases among the Ghanaian populace to ensure that wealth is created through the abundance of good health.

  5. How to achieve the goal • Provision of the legal framework • Identifying the sectors along the food supply chain and developing measures to address issues of food safety concerns at each sector. • Assessing, communicating and managing foodborne risks, in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders and partners

  6. Approaches • Identification of all MDAs involved in food supply chain in Ghana, clearly defining/establishing their roles and strengthening them to play these roles effectively. • Assessment of the food-safety risk in the food supply chain to prevent, eliminate or reduce food safety hazards and development of methods for assessing the safety of products of new technologies. • Enhancement of public education in food safety.

  7. Approach I – MDAs (1) • Ministry of Food & Agriculture - PPRSD & Vet. Serv.Dept. • Ministry of Fisheries • Ministry of Science & Environment- EPA • Ministry of Trade & Industry - GSB • Ministry of Health - FDB

  8. Approach I – MDAs (2) • Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning - CEPS • Ministry of Tourism Diaspora Relations - GTB • Ministry of Local Government & Rural Development - M,M &DA • Ministry of Interior - GPS

  9. Approach II The assessment of food safety risk in the food supply chain to prevent, eliminate or reduce food safety hazards and development of methods for assessing the safety of new technologies will be established

  10. Approach III Enhancement of public education in food safety

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