The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started a cross country market observation to check the offer of DDT-contaminated food sources, particularly watermelon.
It follows an exploration by researchers at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), which tracked down unsuitable degrees of pesticide buildups in watermelon available in the Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
Albeit the organochlorine pesticides are prohibited for horticultural use, some have been viewed as utilizing them, something which has unfriendly wellbeing consequences for buyers.
Youngsters have been viewed as at higher gamble of experiencing antagonistic wellbeing impacts, including malignant growth, assuming they consume the organic products consistently.
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Responding to this, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EPA said examinations are being directed into the matter.
Dr. Henry Kwabena Kokofu said his outfit would team up with the Police and different partners to attempt the activity.
"Barely any months prior, EPA was on the ground [and] they held onto a portion of these items in Techiman. As of now, the Ashanti Region EPA is embraced market review of a portion of these [products].
"It isn't Mampong alone. The planning of agrochemical utilize began generally inside the Ashanti Regional area, driving Bono and Bono East areas. The following spot of conspicuousness has do with the Northern Region," he said.
He guaranteed that all such regions would be distinctly managed to brace down on the utilization of, and unlawful importation and appropriation of the substances.
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In the interim, the Programs Manager of the Peasant Farmers Association, Dr. Charles Nyaaba, noticed that unfortunate oversight, absence of implementation of the law and obliviousness might be representing the ceaseless utilization of the restricted and unlicensed synthetic substances.
He guaranteed ranchers get no type of instruction which can assist them with understanding the appropriate approach to applying the pesticides.
"As far as even the application, where a few destructive synthetic compounds are restricted from being utilized, ranchers at times use it without realizing that these synthetic compounds are prohibited," he added.
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