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The Nigerian national Agency for food control: forwards in food safety standards
The Nigerian national Agency for food control: forwards in food safety standards Food Safety is defined as the assurance that the food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use (FAO/WHO, 1997). Food safety...
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Occupational Health Hazards of E-Wastes: An Awareness Campaign at the Alaba International Market, Lagos, Nigeria
Occupational Health Hazards of E-Wastes: An Awareness Campaign at the Alaba International Market, Lagos, Nigeria Electronic-wastes (E-Wastes) have been a major menace both as an occupational hazard and as source of pollution to landfills in Nigeria. Advanced economies...
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Family Farming
Rachel Cheng This year 2014 was named the “International Year of Family Farming” (IYFF) by the UN highlighting the important role of family-managed small-scale farming in alleviating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods,...
read moreWHY FOOD MATTERS: the nutrition transition in the Developing World
The “access and excess” that lies beneath the epidemic of obesity and non-communicable diseases. Noemi Renzetti Obesity is not anymore centered in a few high-income countries: it is nowadays a global concern. Urban and rural areas in the poorest countries of...
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Food Safety Issues of Street-Vended Foods
Ilaria Proietti Street-vended foods (or street foods) are becoming an indispensable component of the food system in many cities of developing countries, increasingly emphasized by the rapid urbanization process, and significantly contribute to the food security of...
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Plastics Baby bottles sold in Cameroon: are they labeled “Bisphenol free”?
Guy Bertrand Pouokam Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical in polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, also used in food contact materials, leading to potential consumer exposure through food. A very large number of publications on the toxicity and endocrine...
read moreFast foods and health dangers in Nigeria
Source: Allafrica.com In the last decade, the significant increase in obesity, certain types of diabetes and related heart diseases in Nigeria hasraised critical issues related to fast foods, their high fat content, calories and possibly poisoning and hygiene related...
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The 2009 World breastfeeding week in Ghana: the importance of communication at the community level in improving feeding behaviors
Christian K. Adokoh The festival for the 2009 World Breastfeeding Week which took place from August 12 2009 in Wale wale (Northern Region of Ghana), was a seven-day program devoted to encouraging mothers to early and exclusively breastfeed their babies so as to...
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The water disaster in the Niger Delta
Orish Ebere Orisakwe Protecting drinking-water resources is a key factor in preventing health effects: waterborne disease might claim both infectious and toxic exposure, thus contributing the onset of severe diseases. In Nigeria it is estimated that water supply and...
read moreThe rising rates of obesity in fast developing Countries: the Developmental Origins hypothesis and the role of food contaminants as possible “trigger”
Chiara Frazzoli and Alberto Mantovani The risk of developing metabolic disorders in adult life is influenced by environmental factors that operate during pre- and early postnatal development. In fact, even thoughmuch of the rise in obesity pandemic is attributed to...
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Toxicological risk factors in the holistic approach towards infectious diseases aetiology and prevention
Chiara Frazzoli and Alberto Mantovani Attention is considerably rising on direct/indirect interactions between infective and toxicological risk factors in the susceptibility to infectious agents and/or the clinical severity of infectious diseases. In fact, beyond the...
read moreHarmonisation of toxicology issues between developed and developing countries
Conference for Toxicology in Developing Countries The meeting "Harmonisation of toxicology issues between developed and developing countries" was held under EUROTOX support last September 7th, 2009 during the 7th Conference for Toxicology in Developing Countries...
read moreInitiatives for food safety and security in Africa
Chiara Frazzoli The UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) pointed out that "there is no safety net like food security": agricultural growth is more effective in reducing poverty levels than expansion in other sectors, as well as to reverse...
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Dumping of poor quality and/or unwholesome food to rapidly growing areas
Chiara Frazzoli Lose of food sovereignty with massive and uncontrolled importation of staple foodlike chicken, rice and milk has negative implications on economy, activities of small farmers, with rural-urban migration and abandon of agriculture villages, as well as...
read moreNigeria Bans 30 Pesticides After Deaths
Source: fc-international.com Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale and supply of 30 agrochemical products, according to the Nigeria-based Vanguard news service. NAFDAC Director-General, Dora Akunyili, said...
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Imported Appliances Threaten Environmental Safety in Nigeria
The federal government has disclosed that the legal and illegal importation of used electrical electronics appliances into the country is creating serious human and environmental problems. The potentially hazardous nature of electronic waste due to elements like...
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