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How foods wrapped in plastic sheets link to prostate, breast cancers, among others

I recently chanced on a video posted on Facebook by the renowned singer, Kofi Kinaata lamenting how fante kenkey is now wrapped with plastic rubbers, then covered with the traditional plantain leaves before cooking on the fire. His concern was that this predispose the consumers to several ailments. Indeed, this …

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Man found dead, wrapped in plastic under bridge at Ho

An unidentified man has been found dead under a bridge near University of Health and Allied Sciences in the Ho Municipality. The man was found wrapped in black polythene and tied with a sellotape. According to sources, the body of the man was believed to have been dumped under the …

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Polythene wrapped banku: A more deadly substitute for cigarettes?

  A report shared by a Facebook user claims that eating banku, local fermented corn and cassava based food wrapped in polythene, is equivalent to smoking 135 sticks of cigarettes. Initial investigations reveal that this claim has been seen making its rounds online. With this re-circulation, the discussion has picked …

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