EatSafe International

Healthy Choices for a Healthy Planet.

EatSafe Ghana is a non-governmental organization founded in 2007 with the primary aim of improving public health through safe, nutritious and healthy foods.

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EatSafe Ghana is a non-governmental organization founded in 2007 with the primary aim of improving public health through safe, nutritious and healthy foods. EatSafe Ghana recognizes the fact that foodborne illnesses and diet-related diseases are on the increase all over the world, especially in developing countries including Ghana. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in developing countries contaminated food contributes to 1.5 billion annual cases of diarrhoea and at least 1.8 million deaths in children below 5 years.

How We Work It?

  • Capacity development
  • Public education and awareness creation
  • Evidence-based advocacy for increased investments in food safety and nutrition research, nutrient-dense food production, food processing and distribution; 
  • Women and youth empowerment; 
  • Health facilities, food safety and hygiene-related infrastructural development; 
  • Research to generate evidence to influence policy and practice.
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Who we are

EatSafe Ghana recognizes the fact that foodborne illnesses and diet-related diseases are on the increase all over the world, especially in developing countries including Ghana. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in developing countries contaminated food contributes to 1.5 billion annual cases of diarrhoea and at least 1.8 million deaths in children below 5 years.

In Ghana it is estimated that the total annual out-patient cases reported with food-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera and hepatitis, is about 420,000 with annual death rate of not less than 65,000. And in 2002 alone about 2.3 million cases of foodborne illnesses were recorded in Ghana’s health institutions.

At the first FAO/WHO/AU International Conference on Food Safety held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2019, experts agreed that “there is no food security without food safety.” Food safety, nutrition, food security and health are inextricably linked because unsafe food creates a vicious cycle of disease and malnutrition, particularly affecting infants, young children, elderly and the sick. 

The Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit defines a healthy diet as "a diet that is health-promoting and disease-preventing. It provides adequacy without excess, of nutrients and health promoting substances from nutritious foods and avoids  the consumption of health-harming substances. Malnutrition in all its forms (under-nutrition, over-nutrition and micronutrient deficiency) affects millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). 


Most of these problems persist due to lack of knowledge; traditional beliefs, poverty, inadequate and policies, laws and regulations; non-enforcement of laws and regulations, too many agencies responsible for regulating our food and poor coordination of their activities; lack of infrastructure such as clinics, potable water, drainage and toilet facilities, poorly constructed and regulated markets among others.

It is in this vein that EatSafe Ghana was founded to help in addressing food safety challenges in Ghana, SSA and other parts of the globe.