The Food and Drugs Board (FDB), in collaboration with Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) have destroyed 393 cartons of expired frozen chicken products confiscated recently.
The Chief Executive Officer of the (FDB), Kyeremateng Agyarko, told newsmen prior to the exercise that their investigative outfit detected that a consignment of expired frozen chicken, (Chapico Filler) was being offered for sale to the public.
The chicken from Brazil expired in March 2003 but was still distributed to wholesalers, retailers and restaurants by the local dealers, Guarantee Investment Company, headed by a Lebanese.
Mr. Agyarko said the FDB teamed up with CEPS to seize all the products while an embargo was placed on entry into the warehouse. He said that to forestall the reoccurrence of such an incident, the FDB has permanently detailed personnel to the various entry points to verify standards of products imported into the country.
Mr. Anthony Doh, Assistant Collector of CEPS, who was in-charge of the exercise, said efforts to retrieve the chicken from the market revealed that a high percentage had been consumed. He, however, said 48 cartons were retrieved from the market.
