Cape Coast, July 26, GNA - Personnel from the Environmental Health Unit of the Cape Coast Municipal Administration on Tuesday seized several food items that had expired from three departmental shops in the municipality.

The items included assorted biscuits and canned drinks, tomatoes, baked beans, corn and wheat flakes and vinegar. They had either expired or had no expiry dates on their containers. They cans were found to be rusted, blown up, leaking or were dented. Ms Rhoda Quarcoo, the Deputy Municipal Environmental Health Officer who led the team, told newsmen that the action followed complaints from the public that many of the stores in the municipality were selling expired goods.

It was realized in some of the shops that expired biscuits had been removed from their boxes and displayed on shelves to conceal the fact that they had expired. They were sold at reduced prices while the corn and wheat flakes had no expiry dates.

Other food items had their dates of production and expiry in foreign languages, while the expiry dates on others had been erased. Ms Quarcoo said the items would be destroyed in the presence of the owners and the police and the shop owners prosecuted in accordance with the Food and Drugs Law.

She said her outfit would continue with the exercise to rid all shops of unwholesome food items.