Tackling informal sector food adulteration

Food adulteration has become one of the gravest threats confronting Nigeria’s informal food sector. It is steadily eroding public confidence in the nation’s food supply, exposing millions of consumers to avoidable health hazards and undermining efforts to build a safe, secure and sustainable food system. Food nourishes and sustains life. When it instead becomes a vehicle for disease and death, reportedly contributing to about 200,000 foodborne illness-related deaths annually, it demands decisive action. Driven largely by the pursuit of quick profits, some traders, processors and food vendors deliberately compromise food quality through adulteration and unsafe processing methods.
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