INSPECTION OF PROVISION STORES (Can food inspection)

Can food inspection is one of the activities usually done by the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit to ensure food safety to the public. During the four quarter a number of provision stores were thoroughly inspected on can food, bottles drinks and sachet food product to ensure for safety for the public consumption. This is done because a lot of can foods, bottle drinks, sachet products are usually got expired making them unsafe for human consumption.

Almost all the communities in AKDA do operate provision stores, and other activities relating to can food. Usually when the year is about ending, most of the products, usually become dented, rusted and expired. So during the last quarter these were the provisions stores inspected.

Below are the details.

Date	Name of owner	Type of business	Condition found	Remarks
	Charity Antwi Agygei	Provision store	25 items	All expired product seized
	Ama Achiamaah	Provision store	10 products	All expired products seized
25/11/22	Yaa Abrefi	Provision store	5 products	All expired produce seized
25/11/22	Florence Adongo	Provision store	2	All expired produce seized
25/11/22	Afia Kwatemaah	Provision store	9 products	All expired produce seized
25/11/22	Ernestina Asanti	Provision store	2 products expired	All expired produce seized
30/11/22	Doris Gyarma	Provision store	26 products expired	All expired produce seized
01/12/22	Akua Sarpong	Provision store	2product	All expired produce seized
01/12/22	Maame Serwaa	Provision store	4products	All expired produce seized

These are some of the expired products that were seized during the inspection

Action Take

1. All expired products were seized and owners were invited for further education.
2. All those who refused the invitation were issued with summons to appear before the court for prosecution.

Challenges

1. Some provision store owners deliberately decide to sell expired products to customers due to self interest
2. Transportation to carry expired products to the Office
3. Sometimes stores owners obstruct Officers from taking the expired along to the Office.

Recommendation

1. The Office should have its own vehicle (Pick Up) for such activity