FDA suspends manufacture of Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix

 The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has sus­pended the manufacture of Tasty Tom Enriched Toma­to Mix by Nutrifoods Ghana Limited, with immediate effect.

This was after the Authority had earlier directed a market recall of all canned Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix products and specific batches of products in pouches (the 380g and the 1.05 kg pouches).

The Authority in a press statement issued and signed by the Acting Chief Executive Of­ficer (CEO), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Manso Opuni, and copied The Ghanaian Times yes­terday, said the suspension of the product followed a consumer complaint and an investigation of the manufacturing plant of Nutrifood Ghana Limited, manu­facturers of the product.

“The Food and Drug Au­thority has suspended the man­ufacture of Tasty Tom Enriched Tomato Mix with immediate effect. A market recall of all canned Tasty Tom Enriched To­mato Mix products and specific batches of the product in pouch­es (380g and 1.05kg pouches) was earlier directed by the FDA,” the statement revealed.

“The suspension follows consumer complaints and FDA’s investigation of Nutrifood Gha­na Limited’s manufacturing plant, which established infractions on standards and quality,” it added.

According to the Authority, it was observed during the investi­gation that the maintenance of critical manufacturing equipment was poor while monitoring sys­tems were inadequate to protect public life and safety

 BY TIMES REPORTER