The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has issued a strong warning to food vendors and sellers of medicinal products, emphasizing the importance of strictly adhering to approved food safety standards.

Non-compliance may lead to severe consequences imposed by the FDA.

To ensure adherence, the FDA has intensified monitoring of electronic and social media platforms for advertisements.

This increased surveillance has already resulted in several arrests.

Speaking to the media, John Laryea Odai Tettey, the Ashanti Regional Head of the Food and Drugs Authority, advised food vendors to register their businesses and emphasized the need to retain receipts or purchase documents.

He also urged vendors to prioritize the safety of the food they prepare for human consumption.

“We have collaborated with the environmental health unit of the Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and inspected the vending points as well as the food preparation points of these street food vendors. The advice for the vendors is that you will have to ensure that whatever you put out there for sale is safe for human consumption.”“If it’s the process of food, then you have to make sure that it has to be registered, and you must always take the receipts or purchase documents from wherever you get it from,” the Ashanti Regional Head of the Food and Drugs Authority entreated.