The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for an agriculture policy on health and safety to cover the whole gamut of food production and processing. The policy, it said, should regulate random handling and usage of chemicals at production stage, inside and outside manufacturing, training for handlers as well as prescription on the conduct of sales. The Ghana News Agency quotes Mr David Kanga, the General Secretary of GAWU as saying there was no policy of such nature and that had paved the way for anybody to purchase chemicals on the street. He said the absence of such a policy would eventually affect the health of consumers and also the quality of products. Mr Kanga also called on district assemblies to join hands with the Ghana Water Company to work out a scheme under which vegetable growers would get clean water for their gardens. He said the situation where gardeners used polluted water on such food items posed health hazards to consumers and suggested that boreholes could be one option.