Stop eating meat from sick animals this festive season – FDA cautions Ghanaians

Stop eating meat from sick animals this festive season, FDA cautions Ghanaians.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned Ghanaians not to consume meat from ill animals.

The FDA’s Director of Food Industrial Support Services, Ebenezer Kofi Essel, emphasized the possible harmful impact on health linked with the eating of such meat.

The FDA head also emphasized the need to stop using vehicle tyres to burn animals before eating.

“Try as much as possible to critically assess any animal for health problems before you buy any animal this Christmas. Any sick animal is not worth slathering and is not worth eating. You don’t have to eat it.”

“Sometimes too, people kill healthy animals but use car tyres to set the fire and prepare, and this is a very dangerous thing to do. Some of the health implications of these practices are not seen early in life but when you are ageing,” Ebenezer Kofi Essel said on Rainbow Radio.