Serious resource-related weaknesses in the monitoring and enforcement regimes at the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD) may have opened the doors to concerted abuse of the laws governing the importation of foods, medicines and cosmetics into the country.
Director of the GAFDD Marlan Cole told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week that claims of harassment against the department being made by some importers were designed to place restraints on the efforts that were being made “in difficult circumstances” to protect Guyanese
