A major impact of the Food Safety Policy is the successful passage of the Food Safety and Quality Bill passed in 2022. It is also worthy of note that the policy clearly outlined roles for each agency directly responsible for the enforcement and implementation of the policy. It should however be stated that the target for the policy’s enforcement was pegged at a benchmark of five years (2014-2019) but many of the challenges to food security continue to loom over the country
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The federal government has put the cost-of-illness of diarrhoea, attributable to food contamination, at about US$6 billion annually in productivity.
It said that the cost was calculated at about US$10 per case of diarrhoea.
Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire who stated this during the launching of the training manual on National Policy on Food Safety & Its Implementation Strategy (NPFSIS), in Abuja on Tuesday said 31 hazard-causing foodborne diseases were responsible for over 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths worldwide.
He said: “In 2014, the World Bank’s “Safe Food Imperative” found that the cost-of-illness of diarrhoea, attributable to food contamination, is about US$10 per case, with Nigeria estimated to lose about US$6 billion annually in productivity which underscores why the health sector prioritises safety of foods sold, marketed, and consumed in Nigeria”.