Cabinet has authorized a coverage framework for control and management of Aflatoxin withinside the meals cost chain, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, stated on Wednesday.
The Policy, while implemented, might assist lessen Aflatoxin infection in meals and feed, which reasons immeasurable harm to human and animal life.
Aflatoxin is a category of poisonous compounds produced via way of means of sure molds discovered in meals and will reason liver harm and most cancers while eaten up via way of means of human beings or animals.
Dr. Afriyie, who introduced this throughout a media briefing in Accra, stated the roll-out of the coverage might allow Ghana to grow her grain manufacturing locally, and export to the global markets.
"If you recognize the havoc aflatoxin is wreaking on our monetary development......, do you recognize why we're not able to export sure products?" the Minister queried.
The Minister stated Ghana couldn't export grains to the European Union marketplace and different overseas jurisdictions due to aflatoxin formerly discovered in meals exported.
On the control of plastic waste withinside the country, Dr. Afriyie stated, the Ministry turned into selling the preventive method of plastic control as a supplement to the cutting-edge economic incentive system.
As a part of the brand new method, the Minister stated, rewards might receive to people and companies simplest while there have been no plastics sighted withinside the assigned groups or locations.
The Ministry, he stated, turned into enticing the non-public area groups who have been already into recycling plastics to decide their potential in phrases of infrastructure and the correct economic guide they might require for sustainable control of plastics.
Dr. Afriyie stated the Ministry might quickly roll out the information of the brand new, "Preventive Model" for plastic waste control and advised the general public to actively get worried while it got here into force.
On digital waste (e-Waste) control, he stated, the Ministry turned into building an e-waste Handover Centre at Ghana Atomic Energy Commission and predicted to be finished in August, this year.
There have been ongoing efforts for the choice of e-waste series and retaining facilities at Ashaiman, New Juabeng North, Kpone-Katamanso, Suame, Offinso, Temple, and Bolgatanga.
"E-waste Communication Strategy has been evolved and it'll assist withinside the series of levies on imported digital equipment," Dr. Afriyie stated.
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