{"id":173464,"date":"2015-12-10T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=173464"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:50:46","slug":"fake-palm-oil-traders-to-appear-before-court-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=173464","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fake\u2019 palm oil traders to appear before court &#8211; FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Police will this week put before court a number of traders who were recently arrested in connection with large quantities of adulterated palm oil confiscated by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rxuamaQGBEf7MxWVA3hfzVc3XIsMpEa0&#8243;]22 traders were arrested two months ago for their involvement in the adulteration of palm oil in markets across Accra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palm oil samples picked from various markets in Accra according to FDA contained highly dangerous textile dye which causes cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the FDA some of the samples also contained \u2018sudee\u2019 dye, which is not listed among the colors in food production, and prohibited under Ghana\u2019s Public Health Safety laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> on the matter, the spokesperson for the FDA, James Lartey said, the authority is still recording cases of adulterated palm oil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe still pick samples from the market for testing and we have noticed that some are failing and some are passing those who were arrested, I spoke to the police and they are being processed to court. They had to visit some production sites and conduct further tests and analysis; they just finished the processes,\u201d James Lartey stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Vivian Kai Lokko\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police will this week put before court a number of traders who were recently arrested in connection with large quantities of adulterated palm oil confiscated by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rxuamaQGBEf7MxWVA3hfzVc3XIsMpEa0&#8243;]22 traders were arrested two months ago for their involvement in the adulteration of palm oil in markets across Accra. Palm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":135435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,4],"class_list":["post-173464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}