On Monday, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) admonished Nigerians to try as much as possible to avoid frozen Chicken, Turkey or other poultry products which are usually preserved with formalin.
NAFDAC’s spokesman, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh stated that some business owners had been using formalin to preserve poultry products, chicken and turkey, in particular.
Formalin is capable of preserving such products for weeks before they get to consumers, he warned.
He said;
“NAFDAC is alerting Nigerians to this practice. There are enough poultry products in the country than to resort to frozen chicken smuggled in, despite Federal Government’s ban,”
He also called the attention of consumers to the economic import of patronising business owners who smuggle poultry products into the country.
Stating more reasons on why the practice should stop, he said that the indigenous poultry farmers and marketers would not grow as desired, as the money spent on smuggled products would only go to producers of the products.
Jimoh added that the patronage of imported or smuggled products would also continue to negatively affect Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves.
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