Former Assemblywoman and market leader at the Kotokuraba Market in Cape Coast, Ms. Francisca Dadzie, has expressed worry over dangers food additives poses to the human body if not measured with its intake and usage.

Ms. Dadzie made this assertion in an interaction with the media following a market forum organized by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for traders at the Kotokuraba Market on Tuesday, geared towards food safety.

The engagement commensurate with the region's celebration of the world food safety day earmarked for celebration in June with the theme, "Food Safety: Science in Action."

The forum offered traders a platform for education, suggestions and an opportunity to seek answers to disturbing issues bordering drugs, agriculture and food from officers of FDA and FAO in attendance at the event.

The event sort to enlighten traders on factors which contributes to making food unsafe in other to guard against food borne diseases by drawing attention to the use of scientific knowledge as key to reducing illness, cutting costs and saving lives through the sale of wholesome food items to the public.

Weighing risk too much intake of spices exposes the body to, the market leader beseeched food vendors and women in general to be circumspect with their usage of food additives in preparation of food either for the family or public.

Laying emphasis on education gained from the FDA forum based on research conducted by food experts, she attributed most food borne diseases to additives often used for food, since most spices possesses high level of monosodium glutamate (MSG), thus its excessive usage poses lot of health risk to human health with stomach, kidney, liver and heart issues.

Adding that food vendors should be measured in their usage of spices, since many falls on them for daily meal or should better choose to resort to natural food spices like ginger, garlic, nutmeg, among others.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan