The agency’s Director General, Prof.
Mojisola Adeyeye, made this known in a statement issued by Mr
Olusayo Akintola, the NAFDAC Resident Media Consultant on Sunday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that three people died in Kano in March after consuming flavored drink, allegedly containing the chemical additives.
The NAFDAC chief, therefore, warned against adding chemicals or additives to food and drinks to enhance taste, stressing that such practice could result to severe illness and even death.
Adeyeye said the agency would stop at nothing to ensure that only safe food and other regulated products were available in the market for consumption and use.
NAFDAC arrests suspected merchants of dangerous chemicals in Kano
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NAFDAC warns Nigerians against using chemicals to enhance food,drinks
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By Ojoma Akor (Abuja) Clement A. Oloyede & Zahraddeen Y. Shuaibu (Kano) Lami Sadiq (Kaduna) & Risikat Ramoni, Lagos
As the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing industrial action by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) continue to deny many Nigerians access to healthcare, experts have offered suggestions on how to eliminate health disparities and inequities to ensure a fairer and healthier world for every Nigerian.
The theme of this year’s World Health Day (which is marked April 7 every year) is ‘Building a fairer, healthier world for everyone’..
Dr Iwalokun Bamidele, head of central research laboratory at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Lagos, said that there is so much disparity in health in the world at the moment.