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Health News Thursday, June 6, 2019
Source: kingdomfmonline.com
2019-06-06
Food and Drugs Directorate, Ghana
According to the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), about 95% of Ghanaians suffer from diseases due to the consumption of unhealthy foods.
FDA chief regulator, Percy Adomako Agyekum, who gave this astonishing percentage, attributed this to the global burden of foodborne illnesses affecting people of all ages, especially children under the age of majority. 5-year-olds and people living in low-income areas. of the world.
In an interview with Kwame Tutu on Anopa Nkomo on Kingdom FM 107.7 in Accra, on the occasion of World Food Security Day, Mr. Adomako Agyekum explained that the United Nations Organization for 39, Food and Agriculture and the World Health Organization play an important role in building capacity to implement food security systems.
He recalled that in a world where the food supply chain has become more complex, any detrimental incident related to food safety can have overall negative effects on public health, trade and the economy.
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