A/R: Authorities shut down 3 cold stores selling ‘unwholesome’ meat

A task force in the Kumasi metropolis of the Ashanti Region has clamped down on three cold stores at the Asafo market for selling frozen meat suspected to be unwholesome to the public.

The shops on were locked up on Wednesday, 26 August 2020 following an intelligence received by officials.

The taskforce included officials from the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Environmental Health Officers and Veterinary Officers.

The officer in charge of the Food and Hygiene Department at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Alhaji Adam Sumaila, confirmed it to Kumasi FM’s Elisha Adarkwah.

“Since last week, I had calls from Asiwa that people over there come here to buy unwholesome chicken, and they’ve arrested them”.

“Apparently, they called; I was trying to investigate to know where they bought the goods, but it looked like the information was very scanty. This morning, we came very early, and we had three stores. I bought one of the fish.

“If you come here to buy the fish, the wholesome one is GHS110 going up to GHS150. But this one [pointing to the fish he bought], in particular, is GHS60.

“So, when we came, I gave out GHS60 and I was able to buy one from a store here.

“Quickly, when she saw us, she started running away, she now realised there was a problem, so, quickly, I made the officers to lock them up while I invited my other colleagues from the Food and Drugs Board and the Veterinary Services and the media”, he narrated.

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Alhaji Sumaila, however, assured the general public that the FDA will take samples of the frozen meat to test to find out whether or not they are unwholesome.

Meanwhile, a cold store operator at the market, Linda Adu, denied claims that the meat stock is unwholesome.