With a goal to establish consensus on acceptable food standards, FSRP in conjunction with the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has conducted a first phase of review of Commodity Standards for FSRP’s value chain commodities: rice, maize, soya, cowpea and poultry. These were carried with critical focus on general and specific requirements on definitions, hygiene, contaminants, microbiological limits, physical and health characteristics, pesticide residues, mycotoxins, grading, criteria for conformity, sampling, testing, packaging, labelling and storage, among others. Experts were drawn from relevant state regulatory organizations, including Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); and key Directorates of the Ministry of Food & Agriculture (MOFA), Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) and some private value chain actors in the aggregation and processing of the selected commodities.
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1. FSRP & GSA CONDUCT COMMODITY STANDARDS REVIEWS (FOR RICE, MAIZE, SOYABEANS, COWPEAS, POULTRY)
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