Bye Laws on street food to be strengthened

The Food and Drugs Board is working with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to update byelaws on street food in Ghana.

This is to enable the AMA deal effectively with the unhygienic condition under which food is prepared and sold on the street.

The move comes in the wake of a research on the contents of street foods by the Rosseau Sadoac Foundation, which showed that forty percent of street food samples tested, contained traces of lead.

The Public Affairs Officer of the Food and Drugs Board, James Lartey told JOY FM that the AMA has faced setbacks in the discharge of its duties due to the old byelaws.

The move to update the assembly’s byelaws will also include the publication of a handbook on street vendors and refresher courses for district environmental health officers to enable conduct inspections properly.