Unhealthy profit: Fresh fish vendors now using dye to fake freshness

By Elizabeth Adegbesan
Driven by economic hardship and the soaring costs of cold-storage preservation, fresh fish sellers are now deliberately masking  decaying seafood with red industrial chemical dyes to artificially make them look fresh again. 
This unwholesome trick, common among fresh fish sellers, Economy & Lifestyle gathered, is basically to mark up profit in an economy that makes small business owners struggle to stay affloat.
However, the health hazzards of this unhealthy business strategy are said to be very alarming. 
According to Mrs. Yemisi Dauda, a caterer, “These chemicals were being meticulously brushed into the dull, grayish gills of day-old or decaying fish to gi...