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NAFDAC Shuts Down 3 PONMO Factories For Using Mortuary Chemicals As Preservative by udomoh(m): 3:52am On Jul 11, 2019
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has closed down three factories that specialise in importing hides following allegations and alarm raised by residents that these factories preserve their ponmo with formalin- a chemical used in embalming the dead in the mortuary.

The three factories are located on Unity Avenue, Ijagemo; Sosanya Street, Ijegun; and Adedayo Ayodeji Street, WAZOBIA Bus Stop, Abaranje, all in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.

It was learnt that residents of Adedayo Ayodeji Street had protested the continued activities of one of the factories in their area, saying the stench from the hide processing was unbearable.

The Deputy Director, Intelligence Unit, NAFDAC, Mr Francis Ononiwu, on Tuesday said one Isaac Nwaebo was arrested because he tampered with the agency’s seal on his premises

He added that when the NAFDAC officials visited Nwaebo’s business premises the previous week, they discovered large quantity of hide, but only saw a handful of the item during Tuesday’s inspection of the facility.

Ononiwu stated that the agency would do everything within its power to ensure that such activities were nipped in the bud and poisonous hides are removed from the state.

“There are so many imported hide factories in Lagos. The hides are preserved with the same chemical used for embalming corpses. They are not safe for human consumption. We have been fighting them and we will get to them anywhere they are.”

Some residents of Unity Avenue, Ijagemo, alleged that water from their boreholes was no longer safe for drinking due to the underground pollution as a result of the activities the factory.

According to them, they are living in fear of an imminent outbreak of disease, noting that whenever the factory was discharging the imported hides from trucks, the entire community would be enveloped by an offensive odour as if from a morgue.

The residents, who pleaded not to be named, told our correspondent that the factory usually burns and washes the hides in the open environment, adding that they had now resorted to drinking sachet water and fetching water from other communities for other domestic uses.

A Proprietress who runs a private school in the area lamented that parents have withdrawn their children from the school citing fears of food or water poisoning as a result of pollution from this factories.

https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/07/11/formalin-ponmo-nafdac-shuts-down-3-factories-for-using-mortuary-chemicals-as-preservatives/?amp

Re: NAFDAC Shuts Down 3 PONMO Factories For Using Mortuary Chemicals As Preservative by Hadeya(m): 4:37am On Jul 11, 2019
Like say the ponmo get nutrients wey e dey add for body.
Re: NAFDAC Shuts Down 3 PONMO Factories For Using Mortuary Chemicals As Preservative by Nobody: 4:38am On Jul 11, 2019
Hadeya:
Like say the ponmo get nutrients wey e dey add for body.
Why did you steal my FTC undecided undecided
Re: NAFDAC Shuts Down 3 PONMO Factories For Using Mortuary Chemicals As Preservative by saheedbadmus(m): 5:26am On Jul 11, 2019
God have mercy on our soul..i just hope this ponmo producers abi na factory owners no go kill us finish for this country
Re: NAFDAC Shuts Down 3 PONMO Factories For Using Mortuary Chemicals As Preservative by Kingpee2(m): 6:36am On Jul 11, 2019
Only God knows what else we are eating that we know nothing about ..
Re: NAFDAC Shuts Down 3 PONMO Factories For Using Mortuary Chemicals As Preservative by nurex01(m): 6:52am On Jul 11, 2019
Yeh! Gbese re o

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