The Nigerian experience on food safety regulations

Nutrition Division

The Nigerian experience on food safety regulations

Conference Room Document proposed by Nigeria

Year of publication 2002

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Like many other developing countries, Nigeria faces the challenge of providing adequate food supply for its teeming population. Towards this end, policies and programmes aimed at boosting agricultural and food production are being actively promoted. However, the issue of food safety poses a more daunting challenge. Like several other countries, Nigeria has to contend with the problem of food-borne diseases with their attendant social, economic and health costs. Realising the central focus that the issue of food safety is attracting globally, Nigeria needs to take appropriate and pragmatic steps to ensure food safety and quality for domestic consumption and export. This is because food has been identified globally as not only a biological need but also as an economic and political weapon. It is constantly a potential source of socio-political problems in communities and nations. An effective national food safety policy should therefore provide the assurance that food supplied to t he consumers is adequate, nutritious, of good quality and wholesome.

Meeting symbol GF CRD Nigeria-1

Language English

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