Food safety: Theme for this year’s world health day

According to World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics, about two million people die every year from eating unsafe food in developing countries. 

Food-borne diseases are major causes of ill-health, especially among the poor who are vulnerable because they do not have necessary knowledge and the means to access facilities that can ensure food safety.

To mark World Health Day on  April 7, 2015, WHO has chosen Food Safety as its theme.

Due to the global changes in patterns of food production, new risks have been identified in developing countries such as Ghana.  

Food is sold by many small-scale producers or cottage industries,  many of whom have inadequate training and lack access to clean water, adequate refrigeration (in light of frequent power outages) and inadequate food handling facilities and sanitation.  

Street-vended foods

With changing life styles and modernisation, many Ghanaians resort to street-vended foods for their dail