Beware of hampers, they could contain expired products – A/R FDA boss warns The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned the public against neglecting labels and writings on food products to avoid consuming expired ones, especially during the festive period. Ashanti Regional Head of the Authority Nora Narkie Terlarbi advised consumers to carefully examine labels on products purchased to ensure consumer safety and avoid food poisoning and other health-related issues. Madam Terlarbi explained that the FDA has observed that most food products on the market, especially during seasons like Yuletide and Easter, could contain expired goods. “Although we have been intensifying our market surveillance to flush out expired goods from the market, it’s unto the consumers to read labels and check the expired dates to examine the wholesomeness of foods before consuming.”
CWSA reminds service providers of end of free water package
Community Water and Sanitation (CWSA) says bills of water consumed will from 1st January, 2021 be the responsibility of water service providers in the rural subsector.
This follows a statement released by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) that government’s free water package to Ghanaians as part of its interventions to curb the coronavirus pandemic ends December 31, 2020, as earlier announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
In a statement released by Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), he said: “With reference to the Presidential directive on provision of Free Water to Ghanaians from April to December 2020, as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, wish to inform all customers in rural communities and small towns that effective Thursday 31st December, 2020, the provision
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Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has announced that the distribution of free water will come to an end on December 31.
GWCL made this known in a statement dated December 22, 2020 and signed by its Chief Manager for Public Relations and Communications, Stanley Martey.
The President Nana Akufo-Addo-led NPP Government introduced the free water supply program in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Initially, the program was for three months but was later extended until the end of the year.
But GWCL says that from December 31 going, “the payment of water bill will be the responsibility of the customer.”
Water crisis hit Aboadze, Abuesi communities
Residents of Aboadze and Abuesi, two fishing communities in the Shama District of the Western Region, have been battling perennial water shortage for the past nine months. Trekking to the Volta River Authority (VRA) area and to Inchaban, a nearby town with the yellow gallons, popularly known as ‘Kufuor gallons,’ in search of water have become a daily routine for the residents, particularly women and children. The situation, they say, is affecting their socio-economic activities. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), the assembly members for the two communities; Mr Emmanuel Avevor for Aboadze, and Mr Ezekiel Acquah, for Abusie, and some unit committee members, indicated that efforts to get the problem solved had not been successful.