
At least 53,000 deaths linked to unsafe food occur annually in Nigeria, according to food safety expert Dr Adeniyi Odugbemi, speaking at a food safety conference in Lagos. Odugbemi attributed the figure to recent studies and urged stakeholders to move beyond merely identifying food safety problems toward taking concrete action to address them, Vanguard reported.
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