Sucatrade calls for an independent laboratory test

Accra, Jan. 16, GNA - Sucatrade, a member of the Finatrade Group of Companies, is calling for an independent laboratory test to assure the public of whether the chicken it imported to the country were wholesome or otherwise.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Monday, Mr Robert Nii Arday Clegg, Solicitor for Finatrade, said the call for an independent verification was not to malign the integrity of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) but rather to establish the truth.

"Sucatrade believes an independent laboratory test is necessary and assures all that if the results prove that any of its products are unwholesome it will bear the full cost of destruction of those products," he said.

Mr Clegg said while Sucatrade was not against the destruction of the products, it believed that due p'