Yam and other food exports from Ghana contaminated with heavy metals – Dr. Ohemeng-Ntiamoah


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  • Reflect 2 months ago

    Please be specific. What do you mean by you spoke to someone in GSA to make such a damaging statement about a whole industry. Do you where yam is farm in ghana?

  • A party of vindictives 2 months ago

    U don't need her specifications. This is common knowledge.

  • Kofi T 2 months ago

    TELL THEM NPP FOOLS FOR US.

  • Asterisk 2 months ago

    When will you and some of these educated fools realize that such foolish comments negatively affect our exports. How true is her assertion? Has the Ghana Standards Board come out to say anything like this? Or has any other au ...
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  • Opinions 2 months ago

    Are you that ignorant? Oh, so you think they will come out and tell you and then what? Please think and stop this childish behaviour.

  • ORIONGH24 2 months ago

    TEACH ABROAD

    An International NGOs based CANADA need both qualified and unqualified teachers who can teach orphans and disabled children basic ( English, Maths, Science & IT)
    The NGOs are paying for the expenses includin ...
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  • Oh Africa 2 months ago

    So people like you want her to keep quiet for the sake of other people's benefits to the detriment of others health. You are not different from the leaders who are saying stopping galamsey will affect the Ghanaian economy.

  • Ojah 2 months ago

    @Asterisk. Individuals like you would have, all the same, cried 'POLITICS' and 'NATION WRECKERS', if the Ghana Standards Board had said anything like this. And if it comes from a US Organization, you will be crying RACISM. We ...
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  • BugaBuga 2 months ago

    HOW CAN A WHOLE ENGINEER SPEAK LIKE A DRIVER’S MATE? HER COMMENTS ARE VERY PEDESTRIAN. SHE CLAIMS SOMEONE FROM GHANA STANDARD AUTHORITY TOLD HER THAT YAM SOLD IN GHANA IS CONTAMINATED. AS AN EDUCATED WOMAN DID SHE SEE ANY ...
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  • Opinions 2 months ago

    Proverbs 12:15

  • Koki 2 months ago

    @BugaBuga
    Since you also don't have any evidence to counter her assertion, it is only proper to take the warning seriously. If someone tells you thieves are on the loose in your community, you wouldn't need to demand eviden ...
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  • Nana Darko 2 months ago

    In which ways are Ghanaians educated apart from Doctors?

  • Opinions 2 months ago

    What does the specificity got to do with the reality of the matter? It is common knowledge that all foodstuffs will be affected. Even bush meat will have their own share of the heavy metals. What water do you think the akrant ...
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  • Apuuuuuuu!!! 2 months ago

    I don't support that galamsey nonsense but what this man is saying too is a lie.

  • There is more . 2 months ago

    An investigative journalist should check how toxic is the weedicide that is being used all over Ghana . A very big topic.

  • J0eY l0nD0N 2 months ago

    I don't think the problems and issues are with the weed killers, although they can cause havoc when they are indiscriminately used in built up environments.

    The real problem is the surface mining and using of number one ...
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  • Ojah 2 months ago

    Just 10 years in the wilderness does not mean she shouldn't be worried about her health and that of the future generation!

  • J0eY l0nD0N 2 months ago

    She can make her submissions without given out days,weeks, months and years, she have done in the wilderness.

  • Jidoshaki 2 months ago

    Damn lies, do galamsey exist in northern and Oti regions? where most of our yam come from. Nonsense.

  • PLS YAM IS TUBAL CROP SO WHAT GALAMSY CAN EFFECT YAM 2 months ago

    Hmmmm the chemical for Gold mining has effect on the yams in our market so pls stop the GALAMSY

  • Anne 2 months ago

    It is normal for Yams and other root vegetables to be high in heavy metals. So why is it news?

  • judischrislam 2 months ago

    P{people, do you all know that Rome fell from lead poisoning? Look if the US government finds that food imported to the US from Ghana contains high concentration of heavy metals, they will BAN I mean BAN the importation of al ...
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  • SOS 2 months ago

    Ghanaian leaders are behaving exactly like Israeli leaders (don't agree with the killings from all sides) of today - allowing bombs and dangerous chemicals everywhere within their own neighborhood because they've lost all sen ...
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  • Ntos 2 months ago

    Any idiot can say whatever he likes now. Dr. Fool!

  • Kwasi Anthony 2 months ago

    USA government should ban food from Ghana,

  • Robert 2 months ago

    I been telling my friends we must stop eating foods. meat and fish exported from Ghana. Our people don't care about us. Thank you for your advise.

  • Nana 2 months ago

    Since when did this so called Dr found out about this issue?
    You see how because of politics we are destroying our own country and businesses in the international community.
    I think the country authorities must dig deeper i ...
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  • Abodakpe.......Takpevi 2 months ago

    These educated fools are bringing this country vdown.Show us the paper or test carried out.
    It's only lies it's not today that this galamsay started.

    In 2020 the went down the pit to encourage them to keep mining.And the ...
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  • K 2 months ago

    PhD holder and you are saying a friend told you and so it is what your friend said.

    Certificates sometimes are the problems

  • Kofi 2 months ago

    Foolish girl

  • Jazz 2 months ago

    Contaminated with what? Stop that nonsense.

  • Patrick Osei 2 months ago

    Galamsey is a public health issues affecting the wellbeing of the citizens of mother Ghana. We’ve waited far too long to stop the menace.

    The country is bleeding from poverty and other health problems. Great wealth is h ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 2 months ago

    My fellow Ghanaians should pay a very close attention to Galamsey in the country. The water bodies are contaminated with heavy metals which in turn affected the land mass. Food grown across the country near any of these river ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 2 months ago

    Galamsey is indeed a problem in Ghana however you have taken the issue too far my dear Juliet. There’s nothing worse than aggravating an already worsening problem.

    Stay blessed and always remember Ghana is where we all ...
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  • John 2 months ago

    Incompetent and intellectual Desabilities So called Dr, Show Ghanaians your research about what you are saying. NDC Propaganda want get the light.