, and they usually bring them from Niger Republic. Most times, they use camel skin and preserve it with series of chemicals, so when boiled, they do it with alum. These steps will now help theAlthough, some of the traders who spoke todenied selling the products, they hinted that already, health officials from the Lagos State Ministry of Health recently sensitized them on the implication of poisonous cow-skin and since then, they have stopped selling such ponmo.
A trader at the market, Mrs. Ijeoma Ugo said: “I used to sell it then because it was more profitable but since we have been warned not to sell it again, I stopped it because I cannot because of profit inflict injuries on someone’s life.”Reacting to the development, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof. Christianah Adeyeye said: “Preservingwith chemicals can kill slowly.
“We are also embarking on an enlightenment programme on the dangers of preserving foods with chemicals.”
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