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Lack of education as usual.
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Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper. Search online for ways to move away from evil islam........You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe.....You are not ...
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If you think education is expensive try illiteracy. May God have mercy. If life were to be based only on what can be seen with the eye it would have been very simple!
This person is criminal. Is she really saying she doesn't know how harmful consuming plastics is? There is no secret to development - education.
@DotCom, you can say that again. I don't understand why she hasn't been arrested (yet), there's the clear evidence of illegality.
SHE WILL NOT BE ARRESTED BECAUSE OF THE STUPID COUNTRY WE LIVE IN THAT EVERYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO DO WHATEVER HE/SHE WANTS. SHE WILL ONLY BE DETAINED ONLY IF A RELATION OF ONE OF THE STUPID PEOPLE YOU CALL BIG MEN CONSUMES SUCH ...
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YOU ARE 200% right. The big men or leaders care the least for the ordinary Ghanaian, once they are leaving like Arabian kings. I feel sorry for ghana
I love your comment Big cheers
Hello youth of Ghana.... You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide....
I hope some of you will now understand why such people were caned on their bare buttocks in public as a means of shock therapy to cure them from their primitive ways. We still have some of these troglodyte species proudly str ...
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IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY THIS LADY. ROBBER IS USED IN FRYING PLANTAIN CHIPS.
Beatings don't cure education does
What caning her achieve? You don't get it. Do you think she would have said this openly if she knew what we know? She has no clue. Yes. She doesn't have the foggiest idea. Not only should SHS be free; it should be compulso ...
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It'd horrible they use plastic bags first everything hot food it's not healthy gh leaders are fools no regulations n so the poor person on the street also cares less
AND ON TOP..THEY ARE ALL NPP MEMBERS OOHHH
What we are discussing here is a serious matter. It has no political colours. Are all koko sellers too NPP?
@june!! the person speaking sounds like an ewe.....I rest my case! mdfk!!
Education is not to make you rich or wealthy per sae but to make you civilized im glad I paid for my own Education without loans im very glad I don't know how I did it but im glad I invested in my life
If you think education is expensive then try ignorance ampa!
The same way the person who has been promoting gayism on ghanaweb got tired and stopped, it is the same way you will will get tired and stop one day. Insha Allah.
BB, that trumudzinyi is probably loooong dead and gone, if not recently, due to his trumudzi.
Massa watch the video again wae.We are too quick to jump into conclusions without proper analysis.
Too quick to jump to what conclusion! That we can fry with plastic and because you can see the plastic still in the oil it's OK? Please some little more education on the devastating effects of microplastics will do for you an ...
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Frying with plastic in the oil is a major no-no. When plastic is heated, it releases toxic chemicals like dioxins, furans, and microplastics into the oil, which can then get into your food. These chemicals are linked to serio ...
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Thank you for the education.
Spoken like a true health professional
Come to gh n see hot koko, waskye, banku everything is put in plastic bags everything....gh leaders don't care just yo steal from their own people evil ppl
Thank you for enlightening the public about the consequences of frying polythene in oil.Its effect on our health. What l will like to ask is ,if it does nothing why do they let it in the oil in the first place. This is why I ...
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Can you copy your comments to the Food and Drugs board/authority for immediate redress of the issue?
which plastic? ignorant fool making noise!
Are you into that same thing too?
You sound really stupid.
You sound really stupid.
You sound really stupid.
Mansare, what do you mean by "jumping too quick"? I think you need some basic education on the subject.
This illiterate has proven beyond doubt that illiteracy is really a disease, however, there is always a cure. FDA should with immediate effect cease all illiterates within their domain from being food vendors as they have alr ...
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Just as Captain Kofi Amoabeng said “ Ghanaians are illiterate, envious, bad people.
Trueeeeeeee. He is right. Dubious way and means of making money.especially the greedy and selfish bastards.
The evil woman should be arrested. They do that to prevent the chips from becoming brittle. The plastic is eaten with the chips when one eats them. This has very high health risks.
All this ones are eligible to vote ooo. She is just empty and not ready to learn too
THEY ARE THE ONES AFENYO MARKIN AND HIS BUNCH OF IDIOTIC SATANIC CRIMINALS CONVINCE TO VOTE FOR THE NPPIGS.
This one too be political??
Ahh menua why can’t you for once think Ghana first??check your post and then think about it!!!
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What is their reason for frying the plantain with plastic bags in the first place?
She must be arrested if she insists on continuing with the practice, in spite of the public outcry.
Have you ever asked yourself why we leave our food in the hands of the poorest, mostly illiterate and sometimes even dirtiest people in Ghana? Look at those who grow our food. Even in Accra here, you can see them watering ...
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Come to think of it, many of our mothers and our grandmothers have been doing similar things for ages. Unfortunately, if you advise them, some of them will stubbornly refuse to hee.
Many of them use plastic bags to cover ...
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Ghana is indeed a failed country. This woman must be tracked down IMMEDIATELY and arrested. Illiteracy should not be an excuse for crime. If she thinks that the plastic doesn't melt and therefore has no effect on the plantain ...
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A big fool, if you claim that the rubber doesn't do anything the it, then why are you placing it in the oil? God will punish you and your entire family for silently killing Ghanaians on the street.
Please watch the video again and listen to the lady attentively
Whats there to listen to? Frying with plastic in the oil is a major no-no. When plastic is heated, it releases toxic chemicals like dioxins, furans, and microplastics into the oil, which can then get into your food. These che ...
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Nothing to listen to, this practice not only dangerous, but evil.
Mansare, you're as ignorant as the woman! Don't expose your ignorance with such confidence. Go and read what happens when plastic is heated and stop disgracing your science teachers, that is, assuming you had any.
You are rather the ignorant one. This woman, although "illiterate" is using scientific method to disprove the assertion that plastic melts in cooking oil. As a polymer scientist, this could not be far from the truth.If you pl ...
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You must be very stupid to type that. Do you know rubber has other chemical compe t aside the physical rubber? Twerp. Continue eating that thing
You are as illiterate as the woman. Fool.
Mansare, I hate to insult people, but this is a serious issue, and it is obvious that you don't have enough brains to make any meaningful contributions on the subject matter. Are you suggesting that science MUST listen to you ...
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Please watch the video and edit your heading and story because it's misleading. There's no correlation to what you've written and what the lady said in the video
It is not about what the lady said or not. It's all about the practice which is dangerous to health. Read this: At frying temperatures, plastics start to thermally decompose.
Chemical decomposition when plastic bags are he ...
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Try eating sausage. Its worse. Its a classified carcinogen by WHO?
What did she say differently apart from her confidence that after frying you can still see the plastic so it's OK?
In reality, frying with plastic in the oil is a major no-no. When plastic is heated, it releases toxic chemi ...
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@Monsare, I see your problem. You've misled yourself badly. Clearly, there is plastic in the pan alongside the plantain. Your problem is that you don't the lips of the woman in the video matching the narration. It's the perso ...
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Indeed, lack of knowledge my people perished. She only thinks of her self gain of the bussiness she is involve in, but forget about the good health of the consumers when ingesting this method of frying chip into their belly ...
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Do you see that she's stubborn in her lack of understanding of what she's doing?
No one's advice will stick in her ears, and for that matter all others like her who do the same. Once she's convinced it is not wrong, her min ...
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This woman must be arrested by FDA
Exactly. FDA must come out and condemn this behavior. They are holding back as if they work with public opinion instead of laid down standards for health and safety.
She must be arrested
this is serious, I thought the story behind rubber might not be true until this. no no no. plantain chips bye bye
Ignorant, yet had the gus to speak nonsense. You're putting your customers health risk. In other words trying to make money at the expense of their health. I urge all her customers to boycout her product so that she can eat i ...
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Arrest this ignorant trader immediately. She is really selfish and very stupid
FDA must quickly find and arrest this witch before she can destroy more human beings
why is the woman still not being arrested.The bag is made with petrol if you dont know.Microplastic being melted with the plantain resulting in over the body cancer.stoke
Illiterate villager woman you better shut up and let the educated ones educates your stupidity. It's even dangerous to drink alcohol from plastic bottle, you're killing Ghanaians slowly and you need to be arrested.
The police should arrest this woman immediately.
The serious issue is that this eoman is not alone in this practice. I have reason to believe all the plantain chips sellers are doing the same.
Lack of knowledge makes my people perished. Literally what she is saying is, nothing wrong eating a plastic into your stomach. Despite it might melt with whatever it is fried with, once eating, the damage has been done. Even ...
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Ignorance is an epidemic in this country!
Illiterates,
The woman simply said that, there is no way they can use rubber because it has no effect.
She placed the rubber in oil to demonstrate that, they don’t use rubber.
If you don’t understand the Twi langua ...
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My friend, stop your foolishness. You don't understand Twi better than over 99% of all people reading/viewing this video.
What the semi-illiterate is saying was to challenge those who say that frying plantains with plastic ...
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You have just exhibited 99% of your foolishness.
I agree with you. The lady was demonstrating to debunk the claims that they use rubber in frying. She wasn't saying it wasn't harmful, but she was saying the rubber doesn't affect anything so she doesn't believe people use it ...
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spot on. too many fools in this country.
Arrest this illiterate idiot now.
This not about education ooo...because we still have educated folks defending this...simple question if tt doesn't do anything..why put it into it ...yours is plantain..others is yaw which your will also go and buy it
Coming to think of where these food vendors reside with the most horrible insanitary conditions. Oh my God Ghanaians are taking in poison indeed. About 80% of the ladies running eateries are complete illiterates.
Where they ...
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I suggest this lady should include the plastic in her daily meals.
She should be arrested
If it adds nothing to it why then putting it in the oil? You kill innocent souls because of your illiteracy.
All the bosses who are supposed to regulate and control public health safety are sitting comfortably in their numerous airconditioned cars and offices with the windows closed and they won’t even drive through the slums and ...
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We have so many useless institutions in Ghana, and FDA is their class captain
You are a fool.
The question is why do you use it¿???¿???
The Woman who fries Chips with Plastics should be educated. Does the law allows this practice? She should be educated to stop this practice and probably be prevented from her trade and arrested.
I am surprised this f00l has not been arrested. These are the silly idi0ts who sit on the front pews in church every Sunday as part of Women's Fellowship
The government should ban all planting chips until the system is sanitised
Such people should be taken to a laboratory to demonstrate to them what Happens When they use the Plastik to Gary the plantain
You are hiding your face and putting the woman and her business and life in danger
Wicked person----the woman frying the chips is ignorant of the dangers involved in her action going viral
No FDA in Ghana!!!.....
Every food seller should have a certificate, same way professionals have certificates to practice. Not every illiterate can prepare food and sell to the public
Such people need to be arrested and prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others. We take things for granted in this country too much.
The lady is demonstrating that it is not possible to add plastic to the oil.
She's debunking the notion that plastics are involved.
Poor presentation by the video man.
No Sir.
She is showing that when she adds plastic to the oil, the plastic does not melt. That is why she showed the remnants of plastic to us after frying it in oil.
But melting is not the problem here. The real problem ...
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Watch the video again and listen with clear mind…your mind is clouded by the news heading and the write up.
The fact that 99% here are condemning her does not mean they understood the video.
Check well and come back t ...
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Fool, plastic does not melt in cooking oil. Take it from a polymer chemist.
Watch the video again, listen to what she is saying and come back again with your comment. Research on what happens when plastic rubber is heated in oil.
Why will you even put the rubber in this hot cooking oil. You have no idea of what you are doing.
Wicked woman
Ignorant woman
Lack of knowledge my people perish
She should be arrested immediately
Hmmmm her business indeed, then they should keep the chips with their families and be eating. Even if you are not educated thus not means you should do certain things?
THE CHEMICALS IN THE PLASTIC WILL DEFINITELY GET IN THE OIL .. AND THAT'S VERY DANGEROUS .
Must be arrested immediately!
The biggest thing slowing down our country is basic education and I mean properly executed basic education. There are several people with this lady’s mentality in Ghana. They do not see anything wrong with their actions bec ...
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If we have such personality in our midst as humans then I'm not surprised where we are....
Period!! I'm short of words....this woman should be arrested immediately
I have seen some people boiled food and covered with plastic bags. I saw my sister doing it too. When I went to Ghana in 2019 I advised my sister to stop using it. I hope this Video will give her some insight.
Useless FDA won't do anything,all they know is arresting people for not registering their products...go and catch this foolish woman
I am seriously against use of rubber for frying plantain chips, however I think the twitter and publisher of this story have not been fair to the woman.
The summary of the video is that they don't use rubber to fry plantai ...
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Where is the FDA?
This woman MUST be arrested and ailed at least a year long.
Does she know that the very hot oil causes micro-plastic to dissolve into the oil?
Is it any wonder that people are dying much too young i ...
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Go and arrest her
You are very STUPID.
A BIG FOOL AND A CLASSICALLY IDIOTIC WOMAN AMONG WOMANHOOD.
YOU'RE IGNORANT AND AN ILLITERATE WOMAN.
IF THE RUBBER DIDN'T MELT IN THE OIL SO WHAT?
ABOA... OFUI... GYIMITO...
HOW CAN YOU SEE A CHEMICA ...
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if nothing wrong, then why not fry with oil only?
Is this ignorance or witchcraft or both?
Lack of knowledge my people perish
Please,ministry of health must step in,and immidiately stop the lady.What she is doing can cause cancer.
Why would she not feed her family with food fried in plastic- contaminated oil if she was ignorant because of lack of education?
She is typical of the mark of the devil that has taken over Nkrumah's Ghana. It started when ...
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This is a stupid answer. If it does nothing why is she using it? Yesterday the Association of Plantain Chip Sellers came to UTV to demonstrate that they don't use any rubber. What they fried looked normal.
What is the benefit of putting the plastic bag in oil?
EI SO THIS IS TRUE?
Plastic bags have chemicals that's harmful in hot oil, who thought them that, the FDA, Health Department should educate them about these dangerous materials. This lady have the nerves to brag about it. Please it must be stop ...
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I stopped eating plaintain chips long ago when Kumasi vendors started using palm oil to give the appearnce to ripeness to raw plaintain.
You are a fool. Palm oil is red because of betacarotene. There is nothing wrong in colouring plantain with palm oil.
Much of the deaths in Ghana related to Cancer ia from our food impoters and vendors.
If does not have any effect then stop using them period
Henceforth I stop buying plantain chips, be it at the supermarket or roadside. Killers, vampires, cocroaches.
Infact all food vendors need to be vetted and people like this illiterate seller be prosecuted immediately. If she thinks the plastics have no effect on the plantain chips, then why put them in the oil in the first place? Wha ...
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Is this a comedy relief? Why must the plastic bag be inside the boiling oil - that’s the question she should be answering. She’d say,’Oh we want people to die early so that they’ll go to heaven.’ Or explain,’I bel ...
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Madness of illiteracy
The madness of illiteracy in thIs case is on the part of the journalist who did this story. The caption is wrong and deliberately damaging to the industry. The fryer is saying that we should look at the plastic not melting to ...
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Your caption is different from what I see in the video. The lady is rather debunking the claims that they use 'take away rubber' to fry the yam. In the demos she said the rubber couldn't melt after leaving in the hot oil, s ...
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So if the plastic does nothing why put it in the oil. Is it the customers who asked for it? That woman should be properly interrogated
If the rubber does not serve any purpose, why then put it in the oil? Ghanaians, please, we have to advise ourselves of the things we buy. Some of these food vendors are killing us gradually.
Yes, that is what came to my mind that if the plastic does not melt, why putting it into the oil to do what? Some unseen particles enter the oil to harden the plantain chips to make it harder or to stay longer, and that is th ...
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So why do you put the plastic into the oil, for what? and the plastic to do what? I'm asking what is the essence of the plastic in the flying Pan ? to do what? Is very dangerous.
This lady must be arrested now. She is q criminal
What?!! I think it absolutely the time for everyone to eat from home. This woman, and the likes of her, must be feared.
Fellow Ghanaians,let us all give thanks to God and the uninformed woman for her kind demonstration about the poison being sold to Ghanaians,back in the days there were 'tankase'(town council) who go round food vendors to test ...
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Aboa, why did you put it in
Pure illiteracy. Clearly she doesn’t understand that plastic bags are made from petroleum, and that there is a chemical reaction between the plastic bags and the hot frying oils. The combination is a deadly weapon that resu ...
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False. Dont display your ignorance. There is no reaction. Take it from a trained Chemist.
God will punish you
This woman should be investigated and tried in the court of law. She has no shame.
This animal has to be arrested
She is crazy
SHE IS A KILLER ..SHE MUST BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED FOR HER WICKEDNESS... WITH THIS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS..HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE SHE ALREADY SERVED? SHE KILLING PPL
Concert woman
Look at her ugly breast
Kennies of people will suffer. Whare is the standard board in Ghana? The government must arrest this woman and set an example for others to stop the act.
Illiteracy and stupidity at its highest. Consumers should just boycott those plantain chips.
Doctors Proffersor FDA all have heard about this killing and poisoning methods that foot.venders have introduced in cooking frying and baking foods for the public but they have turned blind eyes And now these food vendor ...
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Those who buy food outside eat a lot of poison. This clear example.
If there's nothing wrong with it, what's right with it that makes you do it?
If it does nothing why put it in
This is a self confessed offender,demonstrating & justifying how she commits a public health hazard.The FDA's case is set out for them.....the Authority doesnt need much to have her pay a hefty fine or secure a successful co ...
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WE GOT REAL SATAN IN HUMAM FORM. THEY SHOULD ROT IN JAIL
One of my favourite snacks, I will never buy plantain chips in Ghana again until I set up my own plantain chips factory.
If it has no effect or impact then why add it to the oil in the first place? Then you should be able to fry the plantain without putting the plastic bag in the oil. When you were little, is that what your mum taught you about ...
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Most NPP delegates are like this woman
Yes — when a plastic bag melts in hot oil, it can contaminate the oil and any food cooked in it in several ways. ⚠️
1. Melted plastic dissolving or dispersing in the oil
When plastic melts, parts of it can break i ...
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It's unfortunate
This woman is completely ignorant about the chemicals that are contaminating the chips and making it unwholesome.
FDA, please take immediate action and save lives!
Is it sheer ignorance or pure wickedness?Sorry for Ama Ghana!
Please be smart if the traders insist on using plastic to fry plaintan, the consumer should be smart to stop buying the plaintan
Wow, this woman should be arrested right away. She is endangering the lives of Ghanaians.
GHANAIANS HAVE PROBLEM OFPRAISING FREE SHS, YOU SEE??
SHE IS EVEN DEMONSTRATING HER DANGEROUS ACT UNAWARE OF THE UNHEALTHINESS OF FRYING PLASTICS. IT'S NOT ARREST, it's EDUCATION!!
Thunder Fire Their Nyash!
Why does she put the rubber in the hot oil? Can she pls come back to explain? That lady needs to be arrested.
This lady is not a culprit. She is telling us that she doesn't see anything wrong with frying plantain chips with plastic. She is not doing that but she is expressing her opinion which happens to be wrong. She needs education ...
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Does she even know the long term side effects?
Even just eating hot meals in a plastic is harmful then frying food with it.
Plastic has chemicals than any object on this planet. Saying as I've worked in plastic lab
Oblivion: they are a disease of the uneducated. Did she understand the scientific implications and the chemical reactions involved between the plantain, oil, and heat? All these elements combined could pose a serious risk. Th ...
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Eeehi, Ghana paa, adding plastic dry plantain, I can't think far.
So what is FDA saying on this practice?
I have never been an enthusiat of plantain chips. But exposee marks any future dream of eating plantain chips.
It ...
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Very Intriguing!!!
What are the the Food and drugs board doing?
They must come out quickly to clarify the issues.
However for what reasons do these traders now use plastic bags in the frying oil?
She is just an ignorant idiot.As for me it's along time toyme l bought plantain chips. But she can be arrested and prosecuted for selling unwholesome food.
Indeed, illiterate is serious disease ,common sense will tell you the chemical reaction of plastic is cancerous.
I price we pay living with uneducated people. If such a person is choosing a politician to lead the country, you can imagine. These are the kind of people our politicians want.
In Ghana if you do in-depth analysis you'll not ...
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I DONT THINK THERE IS ANY HEALTH ISSUE FRYING UNRIPED PLATAIN IN OIL WITH A LITTLE RUBBER IN THE OIL. YOU CAN EQUATE IT WITH PUTTING YOUR FOOD IN A PLASTIC BOWL AND PUTTING IT INTO MICROWAVE OVEN. GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALLOW TH ...
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She is an ILLITERATE. No argument needed!
What she is saying brings my mind to Fante kenkey sellers. Some also boil the kenkey wrapped rubber. I think they need education
Very sad Elementary Education is lagging in the country.
Indeed, illiteratercy is serious disease ,common sense will tell you the chemical reaction of plastic is cancerous.
I DONT THINK THERE IS ANY HEALTH ISSUE FRYING UNRIPED PLATAIN IN OIL WITH
More than a decade ago this practice was exposed. Ghanaians as always got furious about it for 2 weeks and went back buying as usual.
illiterates and stupidity! this is where she destroyed the market for all the hawkers who sell plantain chips in traffic!
This woman should be arrested ASAP.
Why should u use it . I don't think is good
SO, WHAT ABOUT THE PORRIDGE SELLER USING PLASTIC RUBBER TO PACKAGE IT ?
F.D.A. , WE BEG YOU. PLEASE GO ON THE STREETS AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
Actually this plantain chips are not harmful to the poor people but raider for those who are in cars on the roads especially private vehicles
stupid illiterates. where does one even start to try to educate this woman and her like?
She failed to tell us the reason for that. What happens if the plastic is not put in the oil ? We need to know the reason why the plastic is in there doing what to the oil or the plantain? Your reason doesn't add up.
If the plastic changes the texture of the plantains then it definitely affects the plantains we are eating. The problem is that my people are ignorant to the core.
She didn’t defend it, she was just making experimental for for the public to see
This lady needs to be arrested ASAP.
Where ignorance is bliss it’s folly to be wise.
English Master told the class long ago.
See this is typical ignorance…the woman needs education on the dangers of plastics. Even cold plastic is health hazard how much mo ...
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