Madam Akuah Amposah Owusu, Principal Regulatory Officer at the Brong Ahafo Region office of the Food and drugs Board, said this in an interview with the press in Sunyani.

She urged consumers to consider the sanitary conditions of the area that they are buying their product, read the expiring dates and labels before patronizing a product.

Madam Owusuah said many product flood the market on occasions and are being sold by hawkers whose source could not be traced for questioning if the products are detected to be unwholesome.

She said food safety practice must starts from ‘farm to fork’ and should be observed as such to ensure good health.

Madam Owusu said FDB has intensified it market surveillances in the market to protect consumers from patronizing unwholesome products.

She said much of the food intake by the public especially during Christmas contribute to a lot of health concerns in the country.

She asked the public to consider what enters their stomach and not just put in anything to fill the stomach and entreated the public to have  a healthy eating habit.