You can’t sell ‘bushmeat’ without permit — Veterinary Council


All “bushmeat” sellers, including those who ply their trade along the major trunk roads, are required by law to produce permits obtained from a veterinary inspector before they can sell to the public.

The permits will authenticate the meat as wholesome and fit for consumption.

Disclosing this to the Daily Graphic in an interview, the Registrar of the Veterinary Council of Ghana, Mr Kingsley Mickey Aryee, said bushmeat sales had been included in a new law, Meat Inspection Regulations, 2020, which came into force on July 20, 2020, because research had shown that most game was poisoned.

“It is a very important thing and we insisted on putting in [the law] bushmeat because we have done some research, which found out that most game — about 65 to 75 per cent — have been poisoned.

“They [hunters] poison the animals before they use sticks to hit them to give the carcasses some semblance of being hunted,” he said.

He added that veterinary officers were able to detect the poison in the carcasses by their smell and other investigations conducted.

Source: graphic 

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