‘Turkey Tail Banned In Ghana Since 1999’ – FDA, Ghana Police Seizes Products In Suhum

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'Turkey Tail Banned In Ghana Since 1999' - FDA, Ghana Police Seizes Products In Suhum and Nsawam

The Ghana Police Service & the FDA Ghana have organized a swoop at Suhum and Nsawam to confiscate turkey tails, popularly known as Chofi, being offered for sale.

According to the FDA, the “product has been banned in Ghana since 1999” and that’s why they are hunting it down.

Also it’s part of their effort to ensure a healthy Christmas.

“As part of the FDA’s activities to ensure a healthier Christmas, our Eastern Regional Office in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, has organized a swoop at Suhum and Nsawam to confiscate turkey tail, popularly known as Chofi, being offered for sale. It would be recalled that the product has been banned in Ghana since 1999.”, the post shared by the FDA read.

As you would expect, netizens reacted:

@NanaMCFC

They sell chofi in traffics everyday and here you are saying it has been banned from the country since 1999 I never knew ey

@DEEFORDAB3NDA:

The meat you go chop am or you go feed am to dogs

@papakwesi_jr:

So if Christmas wasn’t coming you wouldn’t have executed your mandate

Source: OccupyGh.com 

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Neil Blackson: Neil Blackson has a B.A in Communication studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism & currently undergoing a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree programme at the University of Cape Coast. I focus on local news, entertaining news, sports. I'm a socialite and a Manchester United fan :D Contact me on Email: occupygh@gmail.com or Phone: +233 247 659 843