Unwholesome drinks destroyed at Wa

Wa, July 28, GNA - About 700 packets of unwholesome processed/packaged fruit drinks "Fresh Cola" produced by Fruits and Flavours Limited of Asebu near Cape Coast were on Monday destroyed by the Environmental Health and Sanitation Department of the Wa Municipal Assembly.

Mr Issa Bello Suleiman, the Deputy Municipal Environmental Health Officer, who supervised the destruction of the unwholesome drinks at the assembly's final waste disposal site, told newsmen that the fruit drinks were seized in a joint exercise by officials from the Foods and Drugs Board and his outfit.

Mr. Suleiman said the agent for the producers of the drinks assisted the two organisations to retrieve the unwholesome drinks from a number of traders in Wa.

He said the exercise was aimed at regularising the sale of processed or packaged fruit drinks and food.

Mr Suleiman hinted that the assembly was in the process of closing down four out of the five "pure water" producers in the municipality for producing under unhygienic conditions, adding that a letter to this effect is about being dispatched to the affected producers.