Happy Lazaro
4 July 2009
Arusha — Arusha's Regional Commissioner Isidore Leka Shirima, has urged stakeholders in the health sector, including those involved in food processing, to ensure safe and nourishing products for consumers. He was speaking during the opening of a trainers seminar on health risks through the food chain.
RC Shirima said safe nutrition and drugs was a world agenda as more and more entrepreneurs join agricultural and food and drug processing industry.
He said modern farm products were becoming more and more unsafe for human health due to chemical fertilizers and pesticides used in the agricultural and horticultural industry.
The Regional Commissioner explained that through the application of those inorganic chemicals on plants, human food is contaminated with health threatening elements.
He also said expired packed food products were being sold with reckless abandon to unsuspecting consumers by some unscrupulous businessmen, to the detriment of the formers' health.
There was need, he said, for close supervision of human food supply from farms through to consumption stalls for the safety of the people's health.
An official of the Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA), Faustin Massaga told the opening session that the three-day seminar was attended by food and drug inspectors as well as trainers on safer food and drugs from Kilimanjaro, Tanga and Arusha regions.
The seminar is part of global efforts to give consumers safer food and drug supplies for their health, so as to have healthier and more productive people throughout the globe.
He said the endeavour would succeed through closer food and drug safety supervision.
The training was expected to cover the whole of Tanzania.
The project is being run by the Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA) in collaboration with the World Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
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