₦airaland Forum

The Lagos State Government has warned residents against consuming spoiled or fungus-infested tomatoes, popularly known as “Ata Esha,” citing serious health risks associated with such products.

The warning was issued on Sunday by the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency through a statement shared on the state government’s X handle.

The General Manager of the agency, Afolabi Solebo, urged consumers to avoid purchasing or consuming tomatoes showing visible white, green, or black fungal growth.

According to him, fungi found on spoiled tomatoes may produce harmful toxins, including aflatoxins, which can lead to severe health complications such as liver damage and related diseases.

Speaking on the importance of healthy food consumption, Solebo said, “A healthy person is determined by what he or she consumes from time to time.”

He further explained that “cooking, boiling, or frying contaminated tomatoes may not eliminate the harmful toxins, thereby making such food unsafe for human consumption.”

The LASCOPA boss also cautioned consumers against purchasing spoiled tomatoes because they are cheaper, stressing that health and safety should always take precedence over cost considerations.

Solebo encouraged Lagos residents to carefully inspect food items before purchase and avoid visibly spoiled or mouldy tomatoes and other food products.

He also advised consumers to properly dispose of contaminated food items and report the sale of unsafe, expired, or spoiled products to the appropriate government agencies responsible for public health, environmental safety, and consumer protection.

Furthermore, he noted that “consumers have fundamental rights as well as responsibilities, including being well-informed about products and services, speaking out against unfair practices, and making ethical and environmentally conscious choices.”

Solebo disclosed that government monitoring and enforcement teams had been deployed to markets across the state to apprehend traders engaged in the sale of unsafe food products.

Source: https://punchng.com/lagos-warns-residents-against-consumption-of-spoiled-tomatoes/

Ok oooooo
Pepper is now gold
What can we eat again

Everything is bad for our health

okomile:
What can we eat again

No good tomatoes in your state?

Tinubu made them start patronizing spoilt tomatoes.

The drunken sailor from the huts of iragbiji.

LordBiden:
Tinubu made them start patronizing spoilt tomatoes.

I guess tinubu also made you eat spoilt mould infested bread.

Household wives have been cooking with spoiled worm infested tomatoes and pepper. Why are they not falling sick!

Many restaurants are guilty of using these...

MrEar:
No good tomatoes in your state?

Bring come nah
We go buy
Shiior

okomile:
Ok oooooo
Pepper is now gold
What can we eat again

Everything is bad for our health

Like fr.. literally everything is now bad for our health.. don't eat this, don't eat that.. Hian!!

Also remember to warn tinubu to let the poor breathe.

Down here them dey sundry am oo.


Does that rid it of toxins ??

And unfortunately that's the headquarters of consumers of spoiled tomatoes, and the whole owambe nation

SafariHunter:
Down here them dey sundry am oo...
Does that rid it of toxins ??

I don't think so because even boiling it doesn't eradicate all the toxins so I wonder if sun-drying will be able to.

See what APC government has force average Nigerians to be eating!

Jebu is what mama put mainly use

SafariHunter:
Down here them dey sundry am oo.


Does that rid it of toxins ??

You get nothing if you dry the badones.
The pics is a good one.

Stop eating outside in Lagos

Most restaurants do this

nah only God go help/kip us from untimely kpai from all this bukas/mama put food.


No mata what,I nor dey eat outside not even party food

MrEar:
I guess tinubu also made you eat spoilt mould infested bread.

Yes he did
Tinubu is a poverty dispenser

brain54:
Many restaurants are guilty of using these...

that's why I stopped eating out a long time ago

okomile:
Ok oooooo
Pepper is now gold
What can we eat again

Everything is bad for our health

I dunno, this has been something we've been eating for long and those whose stomach couldn't take it would simply visit the toilets more than regularly.

We should all still recognize our makeup is not like that of those who are trying to change our ways.

If we must evolve and advance, it must be according to our makeup...

The opposite is what we're experiencing all over Africa. We're evolving and developing not in our own way.

Smh

mrkings84:
And unfortunately that's the headquarters of consumers of spoiled tomatoes, and the whole owambe nation

Are they the only one's residence in that geopolitical location, please use your brain.

correctguy101:
I dunno, this has been something we've been eating for long and those whose stomach couldn't take it would simply visit the toilets more than regularly.

We should all still recognize our makeup is not like that of those who are trying to change our ways.

If we must evolve and advance, it must be according to our makeup...

The opposite is what we're experiencing all over Africa. We're evolving and developing not in our own way.

Smh

The large patronage of health centers now is on the rise than before because of what people consume now.

Chai. See the rubbish people are consuming just to survive

MrEar:
I guess tinubu also made you eat spoilt mould infested bread.

yes because tomatoes are very expensive, so no one has room for waste. Because most households can't afford it

Good and nice looking tomato is now a luxury most Nigerians can't afford courtsey of APC change.


Apc Just dey distribute hunger across the 6 geopolitical zones

Oyo state was heavily supplying tomatoes and other agricultural products to Lagos until now but today people are scared to farm there because bandits are effectively in control of most of those fertile forests all the way from outside Ibadan down to before Iseyin, Saki and those areas

coputa:
The large patronage of health centers now is on the rise than before because of what people consume now.

Don't you realize the problems?

Many of the things we consume also affects us to the extent of reaching the essentials of any individual.

You think these guys are just playing house by attacking what we eat even? No.

It might sound as propaganda but, I believe I don't even have to convince anyone this is true.

DeltaBachelor:
Chai. See the rubbish people are consuming just to survive

boss, if belle get showcase, you go dey laugh everyday. People just eat anything to survive now, nobody send balanced diet again.

Love800:
Household wives have been cooking with spoiled worm invested tomatoes and pepper. Why are they not falling sick!

Ogbeni, wetin be household wives? 🤔

To tomatoes farm is easier to cultivate unlike pepper.I think people begin to have gardens where they can plant tomatoes hygienic for their consumption.