Summary:
The Public Health Act establishes Ghana’s regulatory framework for safeguarding public health, with provisions on food safety, labelling, advertising, and consumer protection.
Description:
The Public Health Act established a comprehensive regulatory environment that protects public health, regulates food environments and ensures consumer safety. It also creates the Food and Drugs Authority, which is responsible for regulating food products and overseeing compliance with food-related requirements.
Several of its articles are relevant to FULL, including the following:
- The Act prohibits the advertisement of food “as a preventive or cure for a disease, disorder or an abnormal physical state”. (Article 100(1)).
- Moreover, food advertisement is prohibited unless the Authority aproves it (Article 100(2)).
- The Law also states other recommendations, prohibitions and restrictions regarding sale and donation of foods products (Articles 97-102).
- Regarding consumer protection, the Law further prohibits the manufacture, labelling, packaging, sale, or advertisement of food in a manner that is “false, misleading, deceptive or misbranded”. (Article 103).