AN Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Ghana, Professor Esther Sakyi-Dawson, has warned of long-term health risks associated with the persistent use of plastics in food packaging across the country.Consequently, she has called for strengthened regulation of food labelling and packaging processes, to protect consumers and safeguard public health.Delivering the keynote address at a forum to mark World Food Safety Day (WFSD) in Accra yesterday, Prof.
Sakyi-Dawson said there was growing evidence suggesting that ingesting chemicals and microplastics leached from plastics was linked to chronic illnesses that affect the endocrine, hormonal, and immune systems."It is subtle and occurs over the long term.
It's not immediate, so we don't see it and that's where the problem is.
They are chronic.
