Agriculture • Created June 25, 2015 04:00

Research more on food security — Gov Amosun

Senator Amosun stated this recently during the “Food Safety for Nutritionists and other Professionals” programme held at the Federal University of Agricultural, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), in partnership with the International Life Science Institute, University of Ghana, Legon (ILSI-UGL).A statement from the university made available to Daily Trust said that this year’s theme for the World Health […]

Research more on food security — Gov Amosun
Research more on food security — Gov Amosun

Senator Amosun stated this recently during the “Food Safety for Nutritionists and other Professionals” programme held at the Federal University of Agricultural, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), in partnership with the International Life Science Institute, University of Ghana, Legon (ILSI-UGL).
A statement from the university made available to Daily Trust said that this year’s theme for the World Health Day: “From Farm to Fork”, highlighted the global concerns for food safety, amplified the emerging threat from food-borne diseases and showed the need for concerted efforts to stem the menace of food-borne disease in the society.
 The governor, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ogun State Ministry of Health, Dr. Daisi Odeniyi, said there was an upsurge of food-borne diseases due to the consumption of contaminated food items such as vegetables, beans and other products.
Amosun said there was the need to educate people on the dangers of eating unwholesome foods, adding that the state ministry of agriculture regularly inspects abattoirs to certify their fitness for the processing of meat for human consumption.
According to him, residues and fruits were subjected to laboratory analysis, while the state ministry of health also got some brands of sachets of packed water, popularly called “pure water”, to undergo the same laboratory analysis.
From the results, it was found that a reasonable number of the things that were consumed were not up to standard, highlighting the need to train and retrain sachet water producers, bakers, food vendors and others, to stop unhygienic food processing procedures.

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