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Unsafe food kills 53,000 Nigerians yearly — Expert

From Vanguard · () English

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  • Food safety expert Adeniyi Odugbemi said unsafe food is associated with at least 53,000 deaths annually in Nigeria.
  • He urged stakeholders at a Lagos food safety conference to move beyond identifying food safety problems.

At least 53,000 deaths associated with unsafe food occur annually in Nigeria, food safety expert Dr. Adeniyi Odugbemi said at a conference in Lagos.

Odugbemi attributed the figure to recent studies and called on stakeholders to move beyond identifying food safety problems.

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