Action to Promote Safe Foods Underway

The problem about food is how safe they are, their quality, their contents and whether they have fertilizers and pesticides or not, the kind of water used in their production, and hygiene of their producers, and their preservation, among many others.
These issues are being highlighted in at an exhibition to promote safe foods and healthy living at the Place du gouvernement in Bonanjo, Douala, on September 19, 2022. The event which is in its second week this week is a continuation of the celebration of the World Food Safety Day on June 7, 2022, is taking place under the theme, “Safe foods for better health.”
The Coordinator of the association which promotes food safety, known by its French acronym ALIAC, Ambroise Michael Ndessoko, highlighted that the event offers also a platform for the promotion of public-private-civil society partnership with a view to reaching agreement and effect new prefectural policy in line with checking compliance to food safety. “We are conscious and wants stakeholders to understand that a healthy feeding promotes a healthy living. For this reason, we are visiting food structures including restaurants to highlight the vital role of the catering industry."
The fourth edition is offers an opportunity for government to communicate on the national food safety system. It seeks to draw attention and mobilise action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks and improve human health.  With the collaboration of the local administration in Douala, exhibitors from the hospital...