National Biosafety submits Ghana’s fifth National Biosafety Report

Mr Asamoah Okyere noted that over the period of 10 ten-year trajectory that Ghana had submitted its 5NR, the Authority had issued nine specialised biosafety guidelines, took 22 regulatory decisions on imports of genetically modified materials for food, feed and processing, and trained over 100 professionals in risk assessment, risk management, and the detection of living modified organisms.

The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has presented Ghana’s Fifth National Report (5NR) on implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, describing how it has moved from a biosafety framework on paper to a functioning regulator that enforces decisions.

Addressing a dissemination of Ghana’s Fifth National Report (5NR) on the implementation the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Accra, Mr Kwame Dei Asamoah Okyere, Chief Executive Officer of NBA explained that, in compiling 5NR, Ghana answered 92 per cent of the questions that applied to it, 22 areas of the Protocol on which it reports, and 15 were fully implemented with most of the rest partially in place.