FDA discovers expired food products at Zuarungu SHS storeroom

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has seized expired food items discovered within the premises of Zuarungu Senior High School (SHS) in the Upper East region, according to a citinewsroom.com report.

A routine inspection led to the confiscation of various expired food products from the school's storerooms.

Among the confiscated items were multiple brands of products, including mackerel, wheat flour, evaporated filled milk, tomato paste, and tomato sauce.

In one of their storerooms, we found about five different brands of products which were expired, and one of them was unregistered as well,” he is quoted to have said.

“...the products were the Free SHS mackerel, the Royal Gold hard wheat flour, Pavani evaporated filled milk, Paka Tomato paste, and Queen [pilchards] in tomato sauce.

“These were the products that we found that were expired.

These were products that were supplied to the school for feeding the children.