Nigerian Food Items To Be Banned
Permanently From International Market, 2016 Deadline Set



Nigeria has been given June 2016 deadline to
improve in the processing of its foodstuffs or
risk permanent ban from the international
market. The Director General of NAFDAC, Paul
Orhi, who made this known yesterday, said
that food items from Nigeria were been
rejected in the international food market
because of the unhealthy procedure used in
processing them.
The DG said at the public presentation of the
special edition of the National Mobilizer
magazine by the National Orientation Agency
(NOA) in Abuja that way Nigerian foods are
being processed was very unhealthy and a lot
of orientation and information dissemination
needs to be done at all levels to get it right.
“There is a lot of work to be done. When you
pass by the road and you see women drying
alubo or even garrion coal tar on the roads,
the coal tar is melting on the roads mixing up
with the garri, and the dust from the cars is
also mixing with the garri and someone just
soaks the garri with sugar and begins to drink
it and we wonder why we have kidney
failures, people are developing cancer and
people are dying. It is we, who have to point
out the dangers of doing these things out to
the person doing them,” he added.

Source: AllAfrica