{"id":766303,"date":"2019-12-16T21:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/weather-conditions-can-affect-best-before-dates-of-processed-foods-fda\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:56:40","slug":"weather-conditions-can-affect-best-before-dates-of-processed-foods-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/weather-conditions-can-affect-best-before-dates-of-processed-foods-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather conditions can affect &#8216;Best Before&#8217; dates of processed foods &#8211; FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FDA.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FDA.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is warning consumers to be careful about \u2018Best Before\u2019 dates on food products in the country.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>According  to Chief Executive, Delese Darko, the dates on most of these products  may be questionable due to varying climates between countries of  manufacture and tropics such as Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>This disparity, she explained, alter the true shelf life of the said products. <\/p>\n<p>She advised consumers to go beyond dates in checking whether such products are wholesome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  have to keep my seasoning in the refrigerator because Ghana is a hot and humid country. In Europe or wherever it was manufactured is cool and  dry. You notice that you buy certain seasonings, it has not even reached its \u2018Best Before\u2019 date but the seasoning has already caked.  So sometimes, even \u2018Best Before\u2019 is questionable because \u2018Best Before\u2019  under Ghana\u2019s conditions may not be the same under certain conditions,\u201d  Mrs Darko said.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA boss was speaking at a stakeholder meeting to deliberate on the FDA\u2019s new guidelines on processed food products.<\/p>\n<p>The  new guidelines outline labeling requirements for processed food  products and sanctions that follow violations including selling expired food products to the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is warning consumers to be careful about \u2018Best Before\u2019 dates on food products in the country.\u00a0 According to Chief Executive, Delese Darko, the dates on most of these products may be questionable due to varying climates between countries of manufacture and tropics such as Ghana. This disparity, she explained, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weather conditions can affect &#039;Best Before&#039; dates of processed foods - FDA - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/weather-conditions-can-affect-best-before-dates-of-processed-foods-fda\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Weather conditions can affect &#039;Best Before&#039; dates of processed foods - FDA - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is warning consumers to be careful about \u2018Best Before\u2019 dates on food products in the country.\u00a0 According to Chief Executive, Delese Darko, the dates on most of these products may be questionable due to varying climates between countries of manufacture and tropics such as Ghana. 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