FDA launches nutrition profiling system to tackle malnutrition and obesity in Ghana

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has launched the Double-Duty Nutrition Profiling System, a scientific food classification framework designed to promote healthier eating and address Ghana's growing burden of malnutrition, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases.

Director of the FDA's Centre for Import and Export Control, Percy Adumako Edekun, said the Double-Duty Nutrition Profiling System will underpin four major food and nutrition policies intended to improve public health outcomes.

The Double-Duty Nutrition Profiling System forms part of the Healthy Diet Healthy Life Initiative, launched in 2022 to encourage healthier dietary habits and support Ghana's broader efforts to improve nutrition and public health.