The Federal Competitors and Client Safety Fee (FCCPC) has warned Nigerians towards consuming fruits ripened with calcium carbide.
The Govt Chairman and Chief Govt Officer of FCCPC, Mr Olatunji Bello, gave the warning on Monday at a one-day sensitisation programme on meals high quality requirements, organised by the company in Ado-Ekiti.
Bello, who was represented by the company’s Director of High quality Assurance, Mrs Nkechi Mba, frowned on the rising sale of adulterated and contaminated meals within the markets.
The FCCPC boss lamented that perpetrators of such acts had been placing the lives of many harmless Nigerians at nice threat.
He promised that the company wouldn’t permit these liable for such heinous acts to go scot-free.
In keeping with him, the sensitisation programme is step one in direction of placing unsuspecting folks on alert and sending a pink sign to “defiant” perpetrators.
He disclosed {that a} complete enforcement of the regulation has commenced, noting that the company wouldn’t shrink back from performing its roles.
Bello mentioned the FCCPC has the statutory duty to guard and promote the curiosity and welfare of shoppers always.
”The problems of meals high quality requirements, security and truthful enterprise practices are extra urgent than ever, however we proceed to see alarming developments.
”Such alarming developments embrace principally the forceful ripening of fruits utilizing dangerous chemical substances, corresponding to calcium carbide, which comprises hint quantities of arsenic and phosphorus, each of that are extremely poisonous to people.
“These practices not solely endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, however in addition they erode shopper belief and sabotage the integrity of our meals techniques,” he said.
He mentioned that the company was collaborating with different businesses, just like the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC), the Normal Organisation of Nigeria (SON), and the Federal Ministries of Well being and Agriculture, to make sure strict compliance.
He suggested shoppers to additionally watch rigorously what they purchase within the markets or farms.
To show his level, he disclosed that via common market surveys, the FCCPC had been in a position to intervene in quite a few circumstances involving hazardous meals practices and needed to shut down amenities, impose sanctions, and prosecute offenders the place vital.
Talking, the company’s Director of Client and Enterprise Schooling, Mr Yahaya Kudan, mentioned the sensitisation programme was a testomony to the company’s dedication to educating and empowering shoppers, farmers, distributors and different stakeholders concerned within the meals provide chain.
The Information Company of Nigeria reviews that stakeholders on the occasion included NAFDAC, SON, the Federal and Ekiti State Ministries of Agriculture, Well being and Commerce, Commerce and Funding, and theEkiti Client Safety Fee.
The stakeholders additionally included the All Farmers Affiliation of Nigeria, the Yam Farmers Affiliation and the Cassava Growers. (NAN)(
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