Two months ago, the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) made a very shocking discovery from one of the topmost elite confectionery company in Victoria Island Lagos.
The popular confectionery, Chocolate Royal, which played host to lots of top figures who are lovers of exotic Ice creams, got sealed completely when it was discovered after a tip off, that the company makes its food products from unregistered, 11 years expired foreign products.
NAFDAC Warns Against Consumption Of Imported Chicken, Turkey and other Poultry Products in Nigeria.
Although imported chickens and turkeys have become status symbol in Nigeria, the National Agency for Food And Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC) has come out to strongly warned against the consumption of imported or smuggled frozen poultry frozen meat, even as it has said that imported poultry products, especially chicken and turkey have been discovered to be causative factor in non- communicable diseases (NCDs) and antibiotics resistance.

Although non- communicable diseases (NCDs) are non-infectious but they are deadly. Health conditions under NCDs include cancer, kidney disease, and hypertension among others.
NAFDAC Director General, Dr Paul Orhii, who gave the warning at media briefing in Lagos, urged Nigerians to avoid imported smuggled chickens and turkeys, because they have been found to contain substances that can predispose one to kidney, liver and lung diseases as well as certain types of cancers and drug resistance- bacterial infections.

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