Commission Warns Against Harmful Food Practices, Urges Compliance With Safety Standards

Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has cautioned nutrient producers and vendors against harmful practices specified arsenic chemic ripening of fruits, adulteration of nutrient items, and mediocre hygiene successful nutrient handling, describing them arsenic sedate threats to nationalist wellness and user trust.

At a sensitisation run connected nutrient prime standards, safety, regulation, and just concern practices held yesterday astatine the Gidauniya Hall, successful Kano, the enforcement vice president of the FCCPC, Mr. Olatunji Bello, represented by the manager of Quality Assurance and Development, Dr. Nkechi Mba, said the committee remains committed to ensuring consumers’ rights and payment successful Nigeria.

He noted that nutrient information is simply a shared work betwixt regulators, producers, and consumers, emphasising that a federation that poisons its radical cannot prosper.

Bello decried the expanding usage of toxic substances specified arsenic calcium carbide, bromate, and formalin successful nutrient processing, informing that immoderate relation who prioritises nett implicit nationalist information would look the afloat wrath of the law.

According to him, “Improper handling and contamination crossed the nutrient worth chain, from workplace to table, specified arsenic mediocre retention conditions, unhygienic environment, mediocre discarded disposal, vulnerability of nutrient stuffs to flies, insects, and rodents, etc.

These practices not lone endanger the lives of millions of Nigerians, but they besides erode user spot and sabotage the integrity of our nutrient systems.”

He added that the Commission is moving intimately with agencies specified arsenic the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control(NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria(SON), the Ministries of Health and Agriculture, and different stakeholders to guarantee strict compliance with nutrient information standards and just concern practices nationwide.

“To each stakeholders present: farmers, nutrient processors, vendors, and concern owners, you are captious to the nation’s nutrient information and health, arsenic they say, ‘you are what you eat’. Therefore, you each person the work and work of attraction to the nationalist arsenic each merchandise you enactment connected the shelves for consumers affects a household oregon a assemblage positively oregon negatively,” helium cautioned.

Earlier successful his invited address, FCCPC’s manager of Consumer and Business Education, Mr. Yahaya Kudan, described the lawsuit arsenic a level to amended stakeholders connected identifying and preventing harmful nutrient practices.

He urged participants to enactment arsenic advocates for nutrient information wrong their communities.

He noted that, the sensitisation run aims to item the dangers of forced effect ripening, adulterated thenar oil, and contaminated nutrient and grains, stressing that protecting nutrient prime is indispensable for nationalist wellness and nationalist development.