A REGULATION is in place to protect users from the sale of unsafe food products, sources from the Health Department revealed yesterday.
Approved by the National Executive Council (NEC) in 2006, it regulates poor quality and improperly labelled food products from local and imported food markets.
The drafting of the Food Sanitation Regulation was technically supported by the World Health Organisation and facilitated for NEC approval by the Food Sanitation Council (FSC).
The department implements the regulation in collaboration with the FSC, Trade and Industry Department and Independent Consumer and Competition Commission.
“The regulation was timely in view of increasing number of imported food items from Asia, most of which are labelled in languages of the country of origin,” sources said.
“The growing number of unregulated fast food outlets in the country is becoming a potential public health risk and is a concern for us.”
Rose Kavanamur, technical adviser for Food Safety and Quarantine of the department and the FSC said: “With this regulation, consumers will enjoy a greater level of protection than before.”