The PPP lot is complaining that there has been a drop in the amount of containers with these fake foods. I am amazed that the PPP should be defending the actions of these criminals disguised as importers of food stuff. Why do Guyanese need these things anyhow? Fresh fish tastes infinitely better than these dangerous imports.

Let the Chinese harvest the Crapos in Guyana and can them for export. It can help reduce the deficit.    I see your favorite parties in power are being advised to sit down with intelligent minds to help solve the country's eco problems.  Seems like they don't know how to develop the economy and nation.

 

Canned frogs rescue Thais from debt

June 13, 2004 at 5:00 AM

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Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

Canned frogs rescue Thais from debt

June 13, 2004 at 5:00 AM

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BANGKOK, June 13 (UPI) -- Poor Thai villagers have escaped financial ruin by canning frogs for export, the Bangkok Post reported this weekend.

Farmers in the Bo Talo village of Thailand's Wang Noi district enthusiastically joined a government-sponsored project to raise frogs four years ago, but they faced ruin when over-production of the croaking creatures glutted the market, the paper said.

However, Yupa Sangnet, head of the Bo Talo frog farmers group, came up with the idea of canning the frogs for export and now sales are booming, the Bangkok Post said.

"We are overwhelmed with orders from the local market and overseas, including Taiwan, China and the US," Mrs. Yupa told the paper.

The group makes 2,000 cans of frogs a day and hopes to expand production to 5,000 cans a day, the Bangkok Post said.

I just can't believe that Guyanese are importing this stuff to eat.

Django posted:

Both of these labels are misleading, using ‘Jack’ brand..

Source  May 04, 2017

… as Food and Drug Dept lacks prosecution capacity

Despite there being large amounts of fake and potentially harmful foods on the local market, successful prosecution of errant importers is rare.

This has resulted in a frightening scenario where many uncaring businesses continue to operate without apprehension.

Marlan Cole, Director of the Government-Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD), is attributing the current state of things to the inadequacies of the justice system.

“The prosecution of these matters leaves much to be desired,” Cole said.

In accordance with the laws of Guyana, Inspectors of the GA-FDD are permitted to prosecute cases on behalf of the department. However, even the inspectors of that department are not properly qualified to execute this task.

“That is why we are working to build capacity. We have embarked on providing training in this regard,” Cole added.

Only recently, this newspaper highlighted the fact that the GA-FDD is incapable of testing imported food products to ensure that what is inside, matches what the packaging says. That means that products believed to be canned corn beef, can very well enter the local market loaded with horse meat, and nobody would know. This can result in many adverse health effects.

Because of insufficient equipment and personnel, inspectors currently employed by the Food and Drug Department are merely tasked with examining the labels of imported products. They are unable to do much else.

Cole, in an interview, said that the importance of the GA-FDD has been overlooked for many years. Inadequate funding has had many ripple effects.

“This is a department that handles billions of dollars of imported and exported products. Yet, we have a budget that can hardly do what we need to be doing,” Cole said.

He explained that the budget constraint, which has taken the expected toll on salaries, has resulted in a high staff turnover, or in some cases, the lack of staff.

“We have lost many of our really good employees to better pay packages being offered by other Caribbean countries, and in some cases, beyond the region,” Cole noted.

He said that while the department is in possession of equipment that can do some amount of testing, the human resources to man these are lacking.

“We have made all these problems known to the government, and from the looks of it, things are expected to get better,” Cole highlighted.

Kaieteur News was informed that efforts are being made to review the budget scale of the Food and Drug Department.

“We are looking at increasing the salaries of our inspectors from $80,000 to about $130,000. This is something we have to do, if we are to improve our work,” Cole asserted.

Another challenge that the department is facing is the fact that it does not even have its own building to operate in.

The previous People’s Progressive Party Civic administration had relocated the GA-FDD to facilitate the construction of the controversial Georgetown Marriott Hotel.

The Food and Drug Department is now operating out of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) building located within the University of Guyana’s compound.

Nonetheless, Cole said that efforts are afoot to construct a brand new building for the department.

“It would be located right here on campus,” Cole noted.

Asked why efforts to resuscitate the entire department weren’t made before, Cole responded, “well, I really can’t tell you. As you know, I have only been at the helm of this department for just about two years.”

With no proper measures to test the safety of especially canned food products, the health of the country’s people is at stake.

Just yesterday, the Government-Analyst Food and Drug Department issued an advisory on the canned fish product “Jack Mackerel,” which failed to specify the species of Mackerel contained in the imported tins.

The department said that it intercepted containers at a few City wharves “and on the shelves of our local market, labels of canned mackerel that are false, deceptive and/or misleading and are in some cases creating and erroneous impression –according to Laws of Guyana Food and Drug Act Chapter 34:03, Section six (6).” (Rehana Ahamad)

Unbef***inglievable.

Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

Django,

Let the Chinese harvest the Crapos in Guyana and can them for export. It can help reduce the deficit.    I see your favorite parties in power are being advised to sit down with intelligent minds to help solve the country's eco problems.  Seems like they don't know how to develop the economy and nation.

 

Canned frogs rescue Thais from debt

June 13, 2004 at 5:00 AM

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BANGKOK, June 13 (UPI) -- Poor Thai villagers have escaped financial ruin by canning frogs for export, the Bangkok Post reported this weekend.

Farmers in the Bo Talo village of Thailand's Wang Noi district enthusiastically joined a government-sponsored project to raise frogs four years ago, but they faced ruin when over-production of the croaking creatures glutted the market, the paper said.

However, Yupa Sangnet, head of the Bo Talo frog farmers group, came up with the idea of canning the frogs for export and now sales are booming, the Bangkok Post said.

"We are overwhelmed with orders from the local market and overseas, including Taiwan, China and the US," Mrs. Yupa told the paper.

The group makes 2,000 cans of frogs a day and hopes to expand production to 5,000 cans a day, the Bangkok Post said.

I have always believed that Guyana can produce enough food for local consumption and for export. We should be exporting canned fish and meat not importing.

Django posted:

Both of these labels are misleading, using ‘Jack’ brand..

Source  May 04, 2017

… as Food and Drug Dept lacks prosecution capacity

Despite there being large amounts of fake and potentially harmful foods on the local market, successful prosecution of errant importers is rare.

This has resulted in a frightening scenario where many uncaring businesses continue to operate without apprehension.

Marlan Cole, Director of the Government-Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD), is attributing the current state of things to the inadequacies of the justice system.

“The prosecution of these matters leaves much to be desired,” Cole said.

In accordance with the laws of Guyana, Inspectors of the GA-FDD are permitted to prosecute cases on behalf of the department. However, even the inspectors of that department are not properly qualified to execute this task.

“That is why we are working to build capacity. We have embarked on providing training in this regard,” Cole added.

Only recently, this newspaper highlighted the fact that the GA-FDD is incapable of testing imported food products to ensure that what is inside, matches what the packaging says. That means that products believed to be canned corn beef, can very well enter the local market loaded with horse meat, and nobody would know. This can result in many adverse health effects.

Because of insufficient equipment and personnel, inspectors currently employed by the Food and Drug Department are merely tasked with examining the labels of imported products. They are unable to do much else.

Cole, in an interview, said that the importance of the GA-FDD has been overlooked for many years. Inadequate funding has had many ripple effects.

“This is a department that handles billions of dollars of imported and exported products. Yet, we have a budget that can hardly do what we need to be doing,” Cole said.

He explained that the budget constraint, which has taken the expected toll on salaries, has resulted in a high staff turnover, or in some cases, the lack of staff.

“We have lost many of our really good employees to better pay packages being offered by other Caribbean countries, and in some cases, beyond the region,” Cole noted.

He said that while the department is in possession of equipment that can do some amount of testing, the human resources to man these are lacking.

“We have made all these problems known to the government, and from the looks of it, things are expected to get better,” Cole highlighted.

Kaieteur News was informed that efforts are being made to review the budget scale of the Food and Drug Department.

“We are looking at increasing the salaries of our inspectors from $80,000 to about $130,000. This is something we have to do, if we are to improve our work,” Cole asserted.

Another challenge that the department is facing is the fact that it does not even have its own building to operate in.

The previous People’s Progressive Party Civic administration had relocated the GA-FDD to facilitate the construction of the controversial Georgetown Marriott Hotel.

The Food and Drug Department is now operating out of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) building located within the University of Guyana’s compound.

Nonetheless, Cole said that efforts are afoot to construct a brand new building for the department.

“It would be located right here on campus,” Cole noted.

Asked why efforts to resuscitate the entire department weren’t made before, Cole responded, “well, I really can’t tell you. As you know, I have only been at the helm of this department for just about two years.”

With no proper measures to test the safety of especially canned food products, the health of the country’s people is at stake.

Just yesterday, the Government-Analyst Food and Drug Department issued an advisory on the canned fish product “Jack Mackerel,” which failed to specify the species of Mackerel contained in the imported tins.

The department said that it intercepted containers at a few City wharves “and on the shelves of our local market, labels of canned mackerel that are false, deceptive and/or misleading and are in some cases creating and erroneous impression –according to Laws of Guyana Food and Drug Act Chapter 34:03, Section six (6).” (Rehana Ahamad)

Let me hazard a guess......Country of origin.....China?