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Background: It is worth recalling that regulation in the area of food quality and safety protection was emerged with the objectives of safeguarding consumers from both economic and health risks. Since there is lack of research studies and few literatures on the specific topic, all effort is needed to be exerted for more additional research work of the issue under consideration. In Ethiopia, as food processing sector is rapidly increasing, giving attention to ensure quality and safety plays a significant role. Due to absence of effective consumer protection law, consumers in Ethiopia have for long been victims of irresponsible marketing of goods and services.
Objective: This study was conducted to explore the Challenges of policy implementation on
food adulteration and related factors at kolfe Keranio sub-city, Addis Ababa.
Methods: Exploratory qualitative research design was employed to explore the challenges and
barriers of policy implementation on food adulteration in kolfe keranio subcity FMHACA ,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The principal investigator transcribed, translated the participants' audio
recorded interviews and data cleaning was made for accuracy. The text files are imported into
Open Code Software 4.02 version to assist coding. In depth-interviews of woreda and sub-city
FMHACA policy implementers transcribed word text was coded, categorized and grouped into
themes as per study objectives.
Result: The following major themes were identified from the analysis of the study. The
challenges identified were put into three categories. 1) Institutional level: Challenges of resource
constraint on food adulteration laboratory machine to verify adulterants where only toxicity test
is done. 2) Challenges at individual level: few technical sector leaders of the unit in charge,
timeliness of reports, cost effectiveness. 3) Structural challenges: as miss-integration of sectors
like FMHACA and Health Office Administration, miss-integration of police, justice and court
for timely decision making, high turnover of sector leaders for political intentions,
corruption/incentive collection.
Conclusion and recommendation: As the study clearly shows, the challenges of policy
implementation needs a due attention and can be shared with concerned bodies, can be used as
an insight for policy makers to improve in the future interventions. As the issue cannot be
addressed or managed by individuals or a single sector; the integration of different sectors is
mandatory. .......................................... Thesis available at ACIPH Library |
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