'Bofrot, plantain chips sellers use plastics in frying' - AMA officer reveals

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  • SATANIC COUNTRY - DotCom 3 months ago

    This is exactly how a satanic country behaves. The perpetrators of this crime don't care how many people they kill. The whole country has fallen into a deep hole where human lives don't mean anything. We go to church every su ...
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  • Ras 3 months ago

    So you see? Have you now seen the reason why people go and buy a bag of rice which was selling at Gh1000 in 2024 for Ghc450 and cook waakye to sell but still sells a plate of waakye at 2024 prize if not higher? These are the ...
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  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    I wonder how this is possible. Because melted plastic, when it cools, will become hardened and impossible to chew. Some scientific explanation is needed here.

  • Nana 3 months ago

    Some of these girls/ women are not different from those who sold their bodies to that fugitive Russians..Could you believe it that some are putting Food Sweetners into Fanti Kenkey for a good taste? It is advisable the public ...
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  • The Motherland 3 months ago

    Watch out for the patient from Ankaful hospital aka MUMBI SERAKI who may soon be here to showcase his sick mentality!

  • Vigorous Public Health Surveillance,Watch And Reconnaissance Should Be Ongoing.. 3 months ago

    @nana - even the fruits sold in the shops and the streets, and especially most of the perishable food items , it is said some traders inject paraldehyde or formaldehyde into fruits like bananas, apples, oranges tomatoes etc i ...
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  • Dogo 3 months ago

    So you don’t understand the simple fact that by the time the plastic cools down the chemical content of the plastic would have sipped into the oil and into the bofrot and plantain chips. So when you consume it you’re cons ...
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  • Suma 3 months ago

    Plastic rice is chewable.

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  • Zagarolo 3 months ago

    There should be a kind of mobile detector for health officers to go randomly and check all these Kotokolis wankye and Ewes Banku and Akan Fufu soup otherwise the whole Ghanaians will die of Kidney,liver and heart problems.Eve ...
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  • Obiba 3 months ago

    The health officers will only have a chance to collect bribe and go away just like former town council officials
    There is no way out
    What a world

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  • We are our own enemy 3 months ago

    Frying with plastic causes major stomach problems,very soon no one will buy bofrot and plantain chips and it will collapse your business

  • Abena 3 months ago

    Then they will say government should buy it for them otherwise yaa bor ka. They are not buying. We appeal to the government to come to our aid

  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 3 months ago

    I completely disagree with the AMA Authorities ,they can secretly visit these Bofrot and plantain chips makers and arrest them.Samples of the Oil can be taken to Standard Board for a test .

  • Kwesi 3 months ago

    This is dangerous. This explains a lot of the non-trauma gone too soon. We're our own enemies...... aĺ in the name of profit. Very religious, but no morals, principles nor conscience.

  • Deep Analyst 3 months ago

    A few months ago I challenged a fried yam seller at Linda door and asked her what was it that she put in the frying oil that made the yam so brown and feel loke a rock.
    I was so suspicious about her putting something in the ...
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  • G.A 3 months ago

    It's unfortunate you brought to our notice about a life threatening situation and you are complaining about your challenges at the same time. You have not even told us about any arrest. Could the agency collaborate with the ...
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  • Yenoah 3 months ago

    We get riches in two ways ;either exploiting from people,fraud,deceit,lies,corruption, and bribery etc.

    All these are attempt to satisfy our selfish interests and therefore serving the devil
    Human beings nowadays are he ...
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  • What of fried fish and other fries? No one is safe 3 months ago

    I only patronize grilled fish these days, can u imagine the type of oil some vendors use for fried fish? they will certainly want to increase profits and buy unhealthy oils to prepare food...everyone is in trouble. Unless fol ...
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  • Papakyene 3 months ago

    There must be some regulations, food poisoning.who protect the citizens?

  • Paa Kwesi 3 months ago

    Oh how time flies and quickly some Ghanians quickly forget. A few years ago the same rumour spread like wild fire in Ghana. This caused the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority to launch investigation into the allegations. It was f ...
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  • Kwesi 3 months ago

    Looking for money at all cost by endangering the lives of others.I think everyone should learn how to fry in their homes and remain healthy if these people wouldn't change their mindset. Shalom shalom shalom shalom shalom.

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  • GHANA IS A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY- ghanawatch 3 months ago

    All these criminal,heinous,ungodly crimes are taking place in Ghana and Ghanaians claim that Ghana is a christian, God-fearing country.. Never!!. Ghanaians are evil.

  • Asona ba 3 months ago

    Your zoo sells human flesh as khebab, useless animal from a death zone jungle. A bad Ghanaian is a saint in that deathtrap shithole jungle of you zoogerian animals.

  • Omama 3 months ago

    This is serious if it's true.

  • Koti 3 months ago

    This officer must be sacked for incompetence. If she knows it is happening why not arrest one as a scapegoat? This warning will go no where and in 5 years we'll hear the same comment.

  • Jeff Data 3 months ago

    It feels sad and very bad to hear.
    Hmm, Ghana for you. So how do we progress with all these noxious mindset? As citizens we must play our part in making Ghana a better place to live

  • We need proof and prosecution 3 months ago

    AMA should come out to clear the air about this scaremongering. We need proof and action through prosecution. This could be False alarm.

  • AK 3 months ago

    This is a serious health hazard. However, threatening the vendors is not the solution to the problem. AMA must embark on serious public education.

  • Magazo 3 months ago

    This is wickedness

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 3 months ago

    No bofrot again, walahi.

  • Ayebgep 3 months ago

    So wicked and selfish and inhuman, l saw a video where some using cement for preservation of raw beans, how can a human act like this ???

  • seth 3 months ago

    It is not the heat from the septic tank that would ripen the plantain, but rather the ethylene and methane gases. Ethylene especially, so knowing the science one should find an appropriate solution for them.

    I for one do n ...
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  • Adoma Fantasy. 3 months ago

    This is too bad and dangerous.

  • Nana Akuba 3 months ago

    You AMA know all this and not a single arrest has been made to deter others? You think sending them caution will make them stop that practice???? Those who have been mandated to deal with these deeds are just looking on, tell ...
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  • Educate and punish!! 3 months ago

    Some are ignorant and need advice!! Others need to be punished!!

  • Oboi 3 months ago

    This is a pure allegation.A professional like this woman spewing garbage! You should fight and get the clear evidence and come out so that it is resolved once and for all! No research and resolutions always acting on hearsay! ...
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  • 123 3 months ago

    Buy some plantain chips and bofrot and take them to GSA for testing. If you find any chemical or plastics in them prosecute them.

  • 123 3 months ago

    *prosecute the vendors.

  • MO KWAME NKRUMAH NO 3 months ago

    Food vendors in Ghana can mix shit and urine to prepare food for people to buy and eat to die" woto adu bone ebikawo"

  • Blaze 3 months ago

    So you just telling the public so that we get to know about it and stop patronising their products and that's it? What the hell are you doing about the situation...can't you arrest and prosecute people so that the nonsense wi ...
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  • La Pleasure man 3 months ago

    If that is true all of these sellers should be lined up at the Teshie shooting range or at the nearest hanging tree..

  • Shallom Shallom 3 months ago

    This government is corrupt from bottom to top and use unfounded allegations to milk the country. After all this unfounded accusations we need more workers so they will now charge unsuspecting job seekers to make money. They m ...
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  • Abi 3 months ago

    U can't go to every vendor's house to check so take samples to the lab.This is why street vending is not good because u dnt know what u are eating..The walls and super market can be tracked.

  • Mineladder 3 months ago

    Why liaring to Ghanaians....

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  • ACE 3 months ago

    Educate the public. Millions of people are not aware of the unwholesome food they consume. Find a way of alerting them, because wicked people are out there trying anything to make money.

  • Noorah 3 months ago

    The authorities must start public education campaign to educate the public and the vendors about the dangers of plastic in food preparation.

  • Pelicles. 3 months ago

    What education are you talking about? Do you want to tell me that those in that silly habit has no idea that they are poisoning people because of money? With this exposure, their sales will plummet then what?

  • Osei Kofi 3 months ago

    This makes no sense because nobody wants his bogot crispy. How did they find out and was any testing done or just based on anecdotes?

  • Pelicles. 3 months ago

    Walls have ears and eyes.

  • OMG 3 months ago

    The whole country is a crime scene, period

  • Pelicles. 3 months ago

    Yes, our mindset is scarier than covid, and the reason we don't develop.

  • Naa 3 months ago

    It's true I learnt about how these women are using plastic in their oil to fry plantain chips about a year. ago I immediately stop buying them on the street. I fry it myself now.

  • Otubuah 3 months ago

    This act is indeed wickedness and such items that needed to be fried before sales must be banned forthwith!

  • Dani Agoe 3 months ago

    Almost ALL the plantain sellers use the plastic to fry their chips.It has been there for long and in fact it's an open secret.

  • Think before you Act 3 months ago

    Do you clearly see how our bananas look this day ?
    They cut down unripe banana and pour chemicals on them .
    Tight it for days ,bring it to the market
    If the seller doesn't sell it fast.it becomes black banana lol
    If you ...
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  • B. ANSAH 3 months ago

    Wow! When you hear things like this, you begin to question how we value human life as a country....is it because we lack knowledge about the dangers of such practices or we just don't care....God have mercy on us

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 3 months ago

    These vendors are so evil and Greedy and would do anything to make money. You are well advised to KEEP AWAY from these Products for “ Goodness Sake “ What else do you want to know? Keep away from from these Products. P ...
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  • Asembenia 3 months ago

    OMG, these uneducated people are poisoning us !

  • Suma 3 months ago

    That is wickedness accompanying greed. Very alarming. I never ever buy anything already prepared, be it food or snack. I find time to do all myself. So they do not get me. If that is the only way they will become rich then th ...
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  • Suma 3 months ago

    That is wickedness accompanying greed. Very alarming. I never ever buy anything already prepared, be it food or snack. I find time to do all myself. So they do not get me. If that is the only way they will become rich then th ...
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  • Test2 3 months ago

    IS PRESENT GHANA THE SAME AS KWAME NKRUMAH TIME IT IS ANOTHER COUNTRY TODAY
    USELESS WICKEDNESS MONEY LOVERS DISHONEST POLITICIANS KILLERS AND FUCKING FOOL ALL OVER THAT COUNTRY CALLED GHANA

  • Samy 3 months ago

    AMA saw this and didn’t make any arrests but comes out to seek cheap popularity corrupt organisations Talk- talk is becoming too much just arrest any wrong doers .