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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has apprehended the merchants of dangerous chemicals used in food and drinks supposedly to enhance taste that killed three people in Kano.
The three died after consuming adulterated flavoured drinks.
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 flavoured drink, allegedly containing 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 in severe illness and even death.
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.
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The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has found out that the chemical added to the killer flavoured drink that led to the death of three persons in Kano State contained ‘Hyroxylamine,’ used for terrorism.
It said all the merchants of the deadly chemicals and additives had been apprehended while further investigation continued.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement yesterday, signed by NAFDAC’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, warned Nigerians against adding chemicals and additives to food and drinks to enhance the taste.
She stated that such practices could result in severe illness and even death.
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