{"id":2509,"date":"2014-10-08T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:48:04","slug":"ponmo-dangerous-to-health-nilest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Ponmo dangerous to health \u2013NILEST"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Leather Science and Technology, Zaria, Kaduna State, Dr. Isuwa Adamu, on Tuesday warned against the consumption of animal hides and skin, known locally as ponmo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Adamu told the News Agency of Nigeria<\/em> in Abuja that the consumption of the product as meat substitute was dangerous to health.<\/p>\n

He said scientifically, ponmo<\/em> did not have any nutritional value to human health.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, it is not advisable for you to consume ponmo<\/em> in the sense that some of the animals killed and used for ponmo<\/em> actually have skin diseases. Some of these skin diseases are such that boiling them ordinarily may not kill the bacteria,\u2019\u2019 Adamu said.<\/p>\n

He added that some of the animals killed had been ill and undergoing injections but the rearers went ahead to kill them, leaving the buyers vulnerable to chemicals in the animal skin.<\/p>\n

The DG said, \u201cSome of the animals because of the ailments that they have gone through are sometimes treated by way of injection with chemicals.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t allow these chemicals to complete its cycle and be removed from the body; they sometimes go ahead to kill these animals.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, if you consume the ponmo<\/em>, the tendency is that you are consuming the chemicals directly because the skin part of the animal retains most of the harmful substances.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember your skin is the major protective organ of your body and your skin harbours so many of the harmful things that are supposed to penetrate into your body.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the skin of animals harboured so many of the harmful waste materials that the body secretes and boiling only could not remove some of those wastes.<\/p>\n

The NILEST boss said the institute was putting up efforts to sensitise the public and advice governments on policies that will help to reduce the consumption of animal skin to the barest minimum.<\/p>\n

According to him, ponmo<\/em> consumption is a national and traditional issue and that just putting up laws may not really help to stop it.<\/p>\n

Adamu advised the government to come up with policies that could be enforced to reduce the consumption of hides and skin as meat substitute.<\/p>\n

He added that this would enhance the quality and quantity of raw hides and skin available to meet the demands of the tanneries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Leather Science and Technology, Zaria, Kaduna State, Dr. Isuwa Adamu, on Tuesday warned against the consumption of animal hides and skin, known locally as ponmo. Adamu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the consumption of the product as meat substitute was dangerous to health. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ponmo-360x194.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Et","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}