National Food Safety Laboratory

Ghana means Warrior King and In the spirit of Ghana month🇬🇭, we appreciate the entire staff of the National Food Safety Lab of Veterinary Services - Ghana for continuously fighting the battle against AMR and safeguarding our animal food value chain for the good of Ghana. We say Ayekoo!

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National Food Safety Laboratory Staff attended 1st AMR Platform Meeting on 11th March,2026 .
A presentation on 2025 Active Surveillance conducted on Poultry and Aquaculture farms on behalf of Animal Health Sector.

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World Organisation for Animal Health

School Children Visits National Food Safety Lab
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The pupils of Danchant Kids School and Dejellis Preparatory School visited National Food Safety Laboratory to understand what Veterinary Services do in terms of ensuring food safety on 5th March,2026
The school children were made to appreciate Food Safety as everyone's business.
Also,the issues of Antimicrobial Resistance was shared with them for them to start to help in fight against AMR as future leaders

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The Fleming Team Visited National Food Safety Laboratory,AMR Reference Lab for Animal Health on 9th February to verify various assets donated and get to know how support is being used.

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CEFAS-UK & AHSS-BHC Visit National Food Safety Lab
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Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science & Animal Health System Strengthening Project of British High Commission visited National Food Safety Laboratory to discuss capacity in aquatic animal health diagnostics & food Safety on 17th February,2026.

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"Antimicrobial resistance doesn't discriminate. It can affect animals, humans, and plants alike. Let's raise awareness and take action to protect our health and the environment. "

UK- GHANA PARTNERSHIP ON SALMONELLA ISOLATION & SEROTYPING IN ANIMAL HEALTH
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Under the Animal health System Strengthening project between Ghana and the UK, the Animal and Plant Health Agency UK hosted some staff of the National food safety Laboratory for a 1 week training in October 2025 to extend capacity in Salmonella serotyping exploring 2 new methods; the microagglutination test (MAT) and the Tube testing. As part of the training, participants were also taken through the Sensititre microbroth dilution method for AST.

Both parties from NFSL Ghana and APHA UK further discussed areas of collaboration at a roundtable meeting highlighting genomic analysis of isolates from the ongoing Farmer Field Project in Ghana, Review and standardisation of SOPs for Salmonella isolation and serotyping, QMS and ISO accreditation coaching for other animal health labs in Africa as well as avenues for future partnerships between the two, beyond the Fleming Fund.

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Promoting AMR Laboratory Testing to Future Veterinary Professionals from UG-Legon
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The third year students of School of Veterinary Medicine,UG-Legon spent two weeks per group at National Food Safety Laboratory as part of their vacation internship to learn laboratory skills in food safety and Antimicrobial Resistance. The students had the opportunity to understand what it means to be accredited laboratory, food safety testing and Antimicrobial Resistance testing in Animal health sector.




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Canadian Veterinary Students Visit National Food Safety Laboratory
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Canadian Veterinary Students visited National Food Safety Laboratory of Veterinary Services on 6th August,2025 with the support of GAPNET .
The students were given a presentation on Food safety and Antimicrobial Resistance Activities activities by Veterinary Services and went on laboratory tour. The students expressed appreciation for the opportunity

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World Organisation for Animal Health

*Food Safety Visit to International Livestock Market*
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As part of the food safety month celebrations, the National Food Safery Laboratory in tandem with the Veterinary unit at Kpone- Katamanso embarked on a food safety advocacy and education campaign at the International Livestock market Turaku by engaging the food vendors, the livestock farmers ,the butchers , meat processors and meat sellers highlighing the significant role they each play within the food value chain.

In the spirit of One health, there was a round table discussion with a representative from the assembly, a public health engineer from MoH, the butchers association representatives and Veterinary staff on the various challenges we each face that impedes our roles within the animal food value chain and the possible way forward to address these bottlenecks the livestock sector faces.

Demonstrating a strong private-public partnership, the National Food Safety Lab teamed up with a private grass farmer to donate a tonne of Super Napier grass to livestock farmers. The goal of this contribution is to support farmers in providing better nutrition for their animals, fostering animal well-being, and producing superior meat for human consumption.

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Food Safety Education in Schools 2/2
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(Pictures of visit to Tenashi Junior High School)
The Veterinary Services Department visited Tenashi Junior High School & St. Peter's Catholic School,Osu as part of the 2025 World Food Safety Month Celebration on Wednesday,11th June,2025.
The team taught the school children about food safety,five keys to safer foods,how to wash our hands and a practical demonstration of how our hands are not clean after touching surfaces.
The purpose of the visit was to educate the children about how to keep their food safe for consumption and general food safety measures.The kids were very excited and answered all questions properly.They had a fair idea of the topic and that made the lesson very easy. The opportunity was used to talk to the food vendors at the premises and they welcomed us and listened to us as well.