Rough Economy: Local markets flooded with toxic powdered charcoal, poisonous dye additives

By Elizabeth Adegbesan
The greed to make more profit in an excruciatingly biting economy that Nigerians are now witnessing is rising by the day. In the local Nigerian markets unscrupulous spice merchants are now exploiting the food inflation to heavily adulterate daily kitchen staples.
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Some of the usually tied ground food items like egusi, pepper,  pepper soup spices, turmeric powder, ginger powder and the likes are now pure poison. Some greedy food merchants now adulterate them with additives that are dangerous to health. 
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