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\"\"<\/a>The Food Safety Management Department (FSMD) of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has embarked on the licensing of street vendors to ensure the safety of foods.<\/p>\n

The exercise, being undertaken in collaboration with the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit of Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), is aimed at ensuring that food vendors adhered to and met the stipulated requirements of going through annual medical screening and licensing.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra on Wednesday, Mrs Maria Aba Lovelace-Johnson, Head of FSMD, said it had come to the notice of the Board the deplorable state of food preparation sites in the metropolis whereas food vending sites seemed slightly decent.<\/p>\n

She said people purchased food from street vendors without finding out its source let alone inspecting the preparation sites, adding that the public must endeavour to know the preparation sites of the food they purchased outside home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might be deceived and attracted by the neat vendor sites but the source of the food we eat might be as dirty as anything,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The team from FDB and AMA are currently going round Osu Oxford street to inspect street food vendors and find out their level of knowledge on basic hygiene, personal hygiene, inspect preparation sites,\u00a0 raw material acquisition, their storage and control, food preparation, water supply and storage as well as equipment and utensils used in food preparation and serving.<\/p>\n

Mrs Lovelace-Johnson said after the inspection, the Board would then issue vendors with licenses and certificates which would be displayed when at work for easy identification.<\/p>\n

\u201cVendors who do not comply after this inspection and education I\u2019m afraid will have to be prosecuted and face the full rigours of the law,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

She explained that the FDB was treating with seriousness concerns raised by the public on food safety and its related diseases.<\/p>\n

It had, therefore, created Public Education and Food Borne Disease Surveillance Unit under the FSMD to assist in addressing food borne diseases.<\/p>\n

Ms Matilda Fati Sandow, Deputy Environmental Health Officer of AMA, expressed concern about challenges facing the Assembly during the daily inspection routine where some vendors refused to grant them audience whilst others insulted them.<\/p>\n

She welcomed the collaboration and the training and resources provided them by FDB, adding, \u201cThis will help us reach a wider population of street food vendors as well as the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: GNA<\/p>\n

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