Improving food safety standards in Ghana
The Agricultural Services Sub-sector Investment Project has a component to improve food safety standards in Ghana. The areas that have been earmarked by the authorities are: The maize sector (main risk: mycotoxins and pesticides residue levels), The fisheries sector: in their efforts to promote a non traditional export commodity such as fish, Ghana is hampered by a number of gaps in compliance with internationally required fish food safety standards. The project will promote rationalization of the food laboratories infrastructure in the country: identify gaps and possible duplication, and propose an action plan to streamline lab. analysis capabilities and to rationalize the activities of competing agencies (Ghana Standards Board and the Food and Drugs Board).
| Implemented by |
World Bank Group
(World Bank Group)
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| Dates |
Aug 2000
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Oct 2006
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| Countries |
Ghana
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| Project Scope |
National
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| Project Target |
Standard setting bodies
Government ministries
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| Documents |
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| Contact |
Gayatri Acharya
gacharya@worldbank.org
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