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Moji Adeyeye, Director General of the National Agency for Food and istration and Control, has urged Nigerians to refrain from storing cooked food in the refrigerator for more than three days.

Adeyeye warned that cooked food stored in the refrigerator for days is susceptible to contamination by disease-causing pathogens, key agents of foodborne diseases that can lead to death.

She made this known in a statement on Tuesday signed by Sayo Akintola, the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, News360 Nigeria gathered

Adeyeye, who said this in commemoration of the 2024 World Food Safety Day with the theme, ‘Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected’, urged stakeholders in the food supply chain to take deliberate actions to institute a food safety culture in their operations to mitigate food hazards and risks that could compromise food safety.

The World Food Safety Day celebrated annually on June 7 was established by the United Nations General Assembly task force in 2018 to raise awareness and encourage efforts to prevent, detect and address public health risks linked to unsafe food.

The statement partly read, “She however, urged Nigerians to refrain from storing cooked food in the refrigerator for more than three days, warning that cooked food stored in the refrigerator for days is susceptible to contamination by disease-causing pathogens, key agents of foodborne diseases that can lead to death.”

Adeyeye remarked that food safety is not only important for public health but a sine qua non for economic development and food security.

She noted that food safety is a collective responsibility, adding that everyone from producers to consumers needs to play their part to ensure food safety.

According to her, the campaign aims to promote global food safety awareness to strengthen efforts of preventing, detecting, and managing foodborne risks globally by highlighting the importance of being prepared for food safety incidents.

“Let us all stay true to the statements ‘food safety is everyone’s business’ and ‘food safety is a shared responsibility’ as we celebrate this year’s World Food Safety Day. Working together, we will continue to strengthen our food safety system, ensuring its resilience, robustness, and preparedness for the unexpected,” she said.

According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 600 million – almost one in 10 people in the world – fall ill after eating contaminated food, and 420,000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years.

WHO said $110bn is lost yearly in productivity and medical expenses resulting from unsafe food in low- and middle-income countries.

Also, the Director of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Mrs Eva Edwards, alerted that foodborne diseases are expensive, yet they are preventable.

Edwards emphasised the significance of food as a necessity for human life, stressing that it can also be a source of harm if not handled properly.

She stated that food safety emergency response must be anchored on a multisectoral, collaborative, integrated one-health approach across the health, agriculture, and environment sectors, the tiers of government including relevant external partners and non-governmental organisations.

‘’Let’s all play our part in promoting the culture of good hygiene practices in our homes, communities, and food establishments. Together we can ensure a safer and healthier food supply for everyone,” she noted.

https://news360ng.com/eating-food-stored-in-refrigerator-for-over-three-days-can-lead-to-death-nafdac-warn-nigerians/

Milk and beverages included?

Make dem shift with their mentality

This one that NAFDAC keep warning Nigerians about this and that concerning food, e get food wey them give Nigerians? 'cause I no get.
Nigerians never see enough food chop belleful, na to store inside fridge.

In this hardest economy?

We are seriously unlearning everything we have learned.
Will you blame those who said education was a scam

Very few people can afford that.

I hear. In this tribulation, I cannot afford to cook every time hence I cook in mass and store in the freezer for heating when needed.

It saves me time and money. All these don't store food in freezers only work where you have abundance of food and a thriving economy.

Thank you madam Moji of Nafdac but I am sticking to my guns.

She is right but



































Where is the food kwanu?

Jokers!

With this ongoing hardship?

People have to do bulk buying, cooking and refrigeration!

Una sha wan kill everyone finish, useless istration! 😠

Where we see light or the food to store first..

thunder scatter tinubu

Jobless people approving things anyhow

Who dey cook wetin go last for 3 days kwanu

So where should we store it
Werey NAFDAC
How do you expect people who work 7am to 9pm to feed their families for a week if they don't store cooked soups and other foods?
Something that has been going on since 1898
NAFDAC is just doing notice me abeg

Ok

Seems like they're just waking up.....have even forgotten NAFDAC still exit.

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Make una rest, no be una food

That's strange

Something families have been doing for years it is today that we will die

What's the problem of this people?

Nigerian government and it's agencies have sworn never to be of any benefit to the people...

if no be sapa why person go store food for 3 days dey chop.

Mariangeles:
This one that NAFDAC keep warning Nigerians about this and that concerning food, e get food wey them give Nigerians? 'cause I no get.
Nigerians never see enough food chop belleful, na to store inside fridge.

With which light sef?

People never see food chop at the moment... where dem wan see the food store for 3days

Message to the elites.

Dey play!

What about frozen foods?

Researching claim

Lies

Stories. let her or of the Nafdac show us their homes if we do not find up to 5 deep freezers each , then we can believe. They always preach what they won't do.