₦airaland Forum

By Olasunkanmi Akoni


LAGOS—Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency, LASCOPA, yesterday, issued a red alert over what it described as a rising presence of sophisticated adulterated palm oil in markets across the state.

The warning followed a technical presentation at the Lagos State Food Safety Conference and Exhibition organized by a Senior Lecturer, Department of Food Technology, Auchi Polytechnic, Dr. Nurah Oseni.

LASCOPA, however, urged consumers to be vigilant and report suspected cases through its official channels as it intensifies market surveillance.

In his remarks, the General Manager of LASCOPA, Afolabi Solebo, reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to protecting consumers from unsafe and substandard products.

Solebo urged Lagos residents to “shine their eyes” and report suspected adulterated palm oil and unscrupulous traders through LASCOPA’s official channels, assuring that surveillance in markets across the state has been intensified.

He vowed that any suspect caught would be arrested and prosecuted accordingly under the relevant laws.

In her paper titled ‘Palm oil adulteration: Emerging risks, detection strategies and regulatory control,’ Oseni said palm oil is highly vulnerable to adulteration due to its high trading volume, consumers’ preference for deep-red colour as a sign of quality, price differentials, informal market practices and difficulty in detecting modern adulterants.

She listed emerging risks to include: the use of potentially carcinogenic Sudan and Azo dyes to enhance colour, blending with recovered or recycled oils including spent cooking oil, and multi-adulterant mixtures designed to evade basic quality checks.

She urged consumers to use simple visual checks as a first precaution, noting that authentic palm oil may separate into layers with the lower layer appearing orange to red-yellowish rather than uniformly deep red, but cautioned that visual inspection alone cannot confirm adulteration.

dre11:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/lagos-govt-warns-residents-as-cancer-causing-palm-oil-floods-markets/

Oxb90:
As it is now, i am afraid of everything in this country. Wetin Nigerians no go fake please tell me.

Nicotinekills:
Nigerians are wicked....

All in the quest to make money

Oxb90:
As it is now, i am afraid of everything in this country. Wetin Nigerians no go fake please tell me.

Klington:
Fake govt,fake president, fake food, fake country.

Country of particular concern for a reason.

SmartyPants:
Easily the most wicked group of people you will ever come across on this planet. Others can be wicked but generally to outsiders. This is the only group I have observed to be actively wicked to themselves.

Namaster:
"She listed emerging risks to include: the use of potentially carcinogenic Sudan and Azo dyes to enhance colour, blending with recovered or recycled oils including spent cooking oil, and multi-adulterant mixtures designed to evade basic quality checks."

When Nigerians talk about Nigerian Politicians, you'd think they were ANGELS who forgot their HALOS at home.

Imagine what someone is SELLING to his FELLOW Nigerians.

Imagine the WICKEDNESS!

These people will buy GOOD product from farmers/suppliers, then MIX it with water and CARCINOGENIC dye.

That way, they'll have MORE to sell and make MORE MONEY.

The most EVIL part is that they'll point to the FAKE rich, RED colour as evidence that the palm oil is ORIGINAL and charged PREMIUM price for it.

When the government CRACKS down on them, they'll resort to EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL about how the government is robbing them of their LIVELIHOOD.

MADNESS!

Bluna:
Somebody needs to invent a new technology for making homemade palmoil for families. Palm oil is 100 percent sourced from oil palm fruits. We only need a kind of potable machinery that can process the oil palm fruits in the house. It will help families to make the oil they consume by themselves. Such innovation will surely sell like hotcakes.

Nigerian technicians, where are you?

KingOfAmebo:
Why not just send your team out to all the markets in Lagos and start destroying those fake palm oil?...Most people buying it are not on social media, they are our uneducated and old parents at home.... Aren't Lagos supposed to have a task force to check all these things?...

Please can someone even tell me the job of that useless task force called Lagos State Neighborhood Watch, those ones just dey collect free salary and dey ride free bicycle upapanda, very useless creation by Ambode, the Mayor of Dirty and Smelly Lagos Sanwo Olu is not even asking questions about their job....

Go to Ikotun, Ipaja, Ayobo, Ijegun, Iyana - Ipaja, egbeda and most areas on the mainland and see kilometers of heaps of waste dumped at the MIDDLE OF MAJOR ROADS... People living in these areas can testify to what I am saying...