The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has said it goes through all the necessary procedures before approving any company to produce and sell out its finished products.
In a statement released by the FDA, it advised the public to patronize only registered FDA-regulated products.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Food Drugs Authority, Delese Mimi Darko, pointed out that, raw materials, packaging materials and manufacturing processes are carefully scrutinized to conform to standards for drinking water and mineral water.
The FDA was reacting to a publication headlined ‘Alcohol in plastic dangerous but FDA stamps them – Researcher’ published on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 editions of The New Crusading Guide and the Ghanaian Observer newspapers and also carried by some online portals.
The publication was based on comments made by Mr Effah Baffo Gyamfi, a Senior Research Assistant at the School of Pharmacy, the University of Ghana on The Ghanaian Kitchen television programme hosted on Home Base TV by gospel musician and Made-In-Ghana Ambassador, Emelia Arthur.
Mr Gyamfi had said on the programme that it was wrong for sachet water to be sold to the public three days after production because the inner part of the sachet becomes ‘slippery’ and thus makes the water unhygienic for human consumption.
The FDA asserted in its statement that packaged water processing facilities and their finished products undergo stringent regulatory procedures which do not make room for unsafe or impure products to get to the general public.
Relating to alcoholic beverages packaged in plastics, the FDA stated that its regulations do not allow for materials that pose any health challenges to the general public.
According to the statement, it also conducts periodic market surveillance and quality analyses of products in circulation on the market to protect the public from dangerous outcomes.
The FDA subsequently urged the public to only go in for its approved products and handle them with appropriate care, especially relating to storage conditions.
