The Senate on Thursday directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the Ministry of Health and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to be alive in its regulatory oversights especially on food and agricultural products.

The Senate also tasked food and agricultural agencies in the country to promptly embark on the standardisation of food crops that have failed to meet international export standards.

This resolution was the fallout of a motion by Senate Deputy Whip, Francis Alimikhena, during which he drew the attention of the Senate to the ban on some of Nigeria’s agricultural products by the European Union (EU).

The EU had banned export from Nigeria till the end of June 2016, items such as beans, sesame seeds, dried fish, dried meat, peanut chips and palm oil.

Therefore, these food items, which are staples in Nigeria, will not find their way into any European country in the next one year, a development seen by the senator as bad news for Nigeria, which he said was desperate to expand its export basket in order to boost revenue.

Alimikhena disclosed that the products were banned because they contained high levels of pesticides perceived to be harmful for consumption adding that Nigeria’s failure to adhere to international standard despite repeated warnings from EU had come to haunt it.

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I think the EU ban is a retaliation of the technical ban of Fish import by Nigeria from EU countries.

OK.. look elsewhere,

OK.. look elsewhere, we import almost everything from those guys yet they won't reciprocate. ban shell, shell bp, Mobil and all these their multinationals in Nigeria I tell you these guys would suffer as those companies are used to exploit this useless country

Era of 'BAN-BASTIC'. Daura dulllard do sometin about this urgently if u want the zoo to earn foreign exchange through agriculture

shey na we e con gud fr our own body

They should standardise and package them well.........surely they'll

They should standardise and package them well.........surely they'll fly

Since the ban will be lifted next year, I think it's a good thing if the masses felt the good hands of the present administration in this ban period. I implore the authorities in charge of the Op to re-channel these produces meant for export to the local markets at a discounted rate... I believe this will still gain positives for whoever is in charge....

Apart from Nafdac, NSO must be bullied to get involved immediately.

Buhari will not send. His mind is only on oil