The Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Roderick Kwabena Daddey-Adjei, has dismissed online claims that vendors add plastic to oil used to fry plantain chips to make them crispier.
Speaking during an interview cited by YADTV, on Wednesday, March 11, he described the reports as false and misleading, stressing that such myths are not unique to Ghana.
“What is going around is purporting that if you use plastic, the plastic melts and then coats the plantain, and therefore it becomes crisp. That is wrong, and that is something we have already put out there on social media and on YouTube, where we emphasise that these are myths, in fact not only in Ghana. In addition ,
“We want to assure the public that so far the FDA hasn’t had such evidence and is still conducting the market surveillance. If you put such plastics in oil, the plastic is another type of chemistry, and the oil is edible; they don’t mix, so people should not come up with such information,” he said.
He added that the FDA is continuing nationwide market surveillance to investigate the allegations, but so far the authority has found no evidence that vendors use plastic in frying plantain chips.
