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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says plans are afoot to map FDA registration numbers with importer Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) under the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS). The move, the Authority explains, would not only prevent unapproved importers from using registration numbers of others to transact business as has been detected over the years, but will ultimately improve systemic efficiency. “It has been observed that some declarants use registration numbers belonging to importers other than the ones they are declaring to apply for permit in the Integrated Customs Management System,” it said. According to the FDA, the situation often led to delays as such applications were rejected and re-applied for before approval could be given. ....
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has hinted of the strict enforcement of the requirement of registration prior to the importation of products with effect from February 1, 2021. The Authority said despite the requirement of registration ahead of importation, over 20 per cent of imports regulated by the FDA arrived at the ports unregistered, hence the need to strictly enforce such regulation. According to the FDA, measures had been put in place to facilitate registration of regulated products, including the reduction of registration fees to about 10 to 20 per cent of the previous fees with a risk-based approach to expedite such registration. Mr Emmanuel Yaw Kwarteng, Head of Division, Import and Export of the FDA, Speaking in a presentation at a stakeholder engagement in Tema on Wednesday, informed that, “effective February 1, 2020, unregistered imported food, cosmetics and household chemicals will be sampled at the port and tested before the clearance.” ....
705 The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has advised importers and exporters to register their cosmetics and household chemical products before offering them for sale to the public. The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the FDA in charge of Food Registration, Mr. Roderick Daddey-Adjei, said the law stipulated that no retailer or importer should display any cosmetics product unless such persons had registered them with the authorities. He was speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting with freight forwarders and importers on FDA-regulated products in Tema yesterday. Mr. Daddey-Adjei said although sections 99 and 118 of the Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851) prohibited the importation of unregistered food, drugs, cosmetics, household chemical substances, medical devices, tobacco and substances of abuse, many importers continued to bring in such unregistered regulated products, many of which found their way onto the markets, thereby posing potential health hazards to un ....