The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians to stop the consumption of non iodine salt, saying “it is dangerous to human health.”
Dr Abubakar Jimoh, the Director of Public Affairs of the agency gave the advice in an interview with Nigeria News Agency in Abuja on Tuesday.
The director spoke while responding to the rumour that people in the rural communities were still consuming the local salt, which was not processed.
He said that the consumption of such local salt could lead to goiter and other dangerous diseases to human health and called on Nigerians to do away with the product.
According to the director, there are four areas in Nigeria
where traditional salt is still being traded, particularly in Nasarawa state.
where traditional salt is still being traded, particularly in Nasarawa state.
“NAFDAC is making effort to stop the trading of this salt in these states but some of them have refused.
“With the creation of NAFDAC in 1993, that was the first time and there was still major work to be done on salt consumption.
“We have organised sensitisation workshop on universal salt iodinsation.
“We have been educating Nigerians that we should not be consuming this local salt because it is not iodine.
“We began a programme in collaboration with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Funds (UNICEF), Micro Nutrient Initiative, Global Alliance and other development partners on the issue.
“We flag-off a campaign against that and it was held in Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, in 2004 under late Professor Dora Akunyili as the Director General of the agency.
According to Jimoh, based on the work NAFDAC did then, Nigeria was declared universal salt iodinsation compliance in Turkey and also won numerous awards in that regards.
“Nasarawa is one of the identified four major endemic areas, they have insisted that it is their traditional source of making livelihood, it is commerce for them."
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Endy Edeson
Adibe Moses really? That could be true but it is also good to take health advice for medical experts
John Valentine
I beg make I hear word,no be the salt wey our olden days parents chop come born us,who fit live long like olden days people again ,Dem want everything to be oyibo oyibo.Oyibo do medicine and food wey you go give foul both man and woman go dey lay eggs now who give the foul bele,no be chamical we de chop so? ,if u talk Dem go say na genetic modify farming.Do you know that there are some sickness that oyibo.medicine no fit cure, unless you go locally?, If am lieing let some body prove me wrong , como'ooo!.maybe
Josephine Ella
It is easier for the government to regulate it than for individuals, once it enters the market it consumption is inevitable so government should control it at the point of production.
Vincent Emeka
Our father's used local sait and lived 120/140yrs with those local salts ,so which salt are they advertising now?
Mr-Pheamps Onotu
But na the same salt wey our great grand fathers eat and stayed longer....... All die na die, i don't trust the Nigerian government and its authorities
Felix Zipporah
We don't Cook with salt in my house, we only use salt to wash vegetables
