Why NAFDAC, FCCPC, NAQS And Others Must Save Abuja residents From Toxic Foods
A few weeks back, the Director General of NAFDAC was heard saying that the body does not have oversight over the sale of adulterated and chemicalized food products in Nigerian markets. This assertion, to my mind is uncalled for.
For the sake of the health of the public, all consumer foods regulatory bodies(NAFDAC, FCCPC, SON, NQC, NAQS and others) must rise up to strictly act in order to curtail these dangerous practices by some unscrupulous Nigerians.
As a eye witness, i have witnessed a scenarios here in Abuja, as narrated hereinafter:
"I have stopped eating fufu because of the manners they now preserve and add some detergents, such as hypo or other preservatives that are toxic for human consumption.
I have a neighbour who prepares and sell fufu. She used to buy cassava, peel and prepare the fufu the normal traditional way and i used to patronize her because her fufu was always well prepared, neat and fresh.
I discovered lately the woman has stopped buying raw cassava, but would rather buy bags of half baked fufu, that is preserved with chemicals which she now finish, wraps and sell to members of the public. Infact she supplies in huge quantities to vulnerable members of the public, including eatries, restaurants and retailers.
Attimes, bags of the half-prepared fufu are packed indiscriminately with goats, dogs, pussy cats and birds feasting on them, even in most cases urinating on them.
This unsafe production practice has made me to stop eating akpu whether from her or anywhere else. Bye bye to Akpu or fufu"
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