The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) wishes to use this medium to ALERT the general public and in particular consumers of animal hides popularly known as PONMO in local parlance on the activities of some unscrupulous businessmen and traders who are selling industrial animal hides as food.

As far back as 2015, following intelligence reports, the Agency, through Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, had been successfully dealing with isolated cases of dangerous diversion of animal hides meant for industrial use into the food chain for consumption as local delicacy PONMO. This practice poses a grave danger to public health.

Investigations revealed that some of the companies legally imported hides from countries such as Lebanon and Turkey, while the majority of the product was smuggled into the country through the porous borders.

These imported animal hides are meant for industrial use by leather industries for the manufacture of items such as shoes, bag, belt etc. The hides, therefore, are pretreated with industrial chemicals which are not of food-grade and will be toxic and injurious to human health. Health hazards inherent in the consumption of such animal hides include risk of Liver, Kidney and Heart damage, increased risk of Aplastic anaemia, Central nervous system toxicity, cancer, etc.

Livestock farmers are also to note that industrial animal hides can also not be used to manufacture animal feed, as the associated chemicals will be stored in the tissues of these animals and will eventually end up in humans when consumed with the attendant deleterious effects listed above.

The general public is hereby encouraged to be very vigilant and exercise discretion when purchasing animal hides PONMO and indeed other food items. NAFDAC is fully alive to her responsibilities of assuring the safety, wholesomeness and quality of processed foods offered for sale to the public. In this regard, the Agency has increased the tempo of targeted and aggressive routine (unannounced) inspections to monitor activities of animal hide merchants to ensure that only food-grade animal hide (PONMO) is sold as food article in our markets.

SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/2019/07/27/nafdac-warns-nigerians-on-consumption-of-animal-hides-and-skin-ponmo-as-food/

A section of the country will not like this news.

I didn't mention names oooo

Fayose right now....

ponmo is not meat and can never be a substitute for it. it's not even nutritious, so I wonder why people consume it

nzeobi:
ponmo is not meat and can never be a substitute for it. it's not even nutritious, so I wonder why people consume it

just to complete the food equation. you'll be like,

gimme 1 ogunfe, 2 normal meat, 1 assorted & one ponmo.


it's ponmo we call last sef

Come and take it away from me

an entire industry is being swallowed up into the mouth bu Nigerians.


A multi billion nairs industry at that..

Nafdac de mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing is more orgasmic as ponmo alata n cold 33!

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Mama Basira .. 2 more pieces of PONMO




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Them nor serious

Read the news properly. First they didn't ban anything, they are only alerting the public to the emergence of animal hides which have been pre-treated with industrial chemicals. These hides are meant for the manufacturing of belts and shoes etc but are being sold in the market as ponmo and animal feeds.

Nothing dey add nothing dey remove

Is it your eating?

SLAP44:
A section of the country will not like this news.

I am sure your means of livelihood depends on that section of the country you are trying to throw your cheap jab at.

Nafdac :- dont eat ponmo

Me :-

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Abii una dey mad nii??.....dem send una??


Gather here if u can relate with what I'm saying

EkunKekere:
Come and take it away from me

Thanks dear, we belong 2 d same Category, i love Ponmo die

Coneheads over to u

Ponmo na cooked belt now

I have never liked that thing.

I never chop meat and chicken finish,na to come chop something wey dey like leather bag

Chai.. na wa oo.. watin common man dey use console himself na him you wan take away so oo..

Ponmo for life, I don't eat soup without diced Ponmo.

Ponmo kika � this people dey mad.

God safe us

Oh no, why na. This pple don come again ooooo

No be lie, abeg iya fisi gi me kpomo ojare

SLAP44:
A section of the country will not like this news.

I don't know why you guys believe only Yorubas eat Ponmo. Ponmo is known as Kanda in the South East and is mostly eaten with Abacha. The entire South eat Ponmo fairly well.