by Adaora Anozie | Apr 24, 2015 | General News, Government/Regulatory, News Flash
Public health consultant, Dr. Omowunmi Bakare, has advised Nigerians to reduce the quantity of salt they use in their cooking and diets. Bakare, who spoke at a public lecture and free medical screening exercise organised by Babatunde Femi Owolabi Memorial Heart...
by Adaora Anozie | Apr 24, 2015 | General News, Government/Regulatory, News Flash
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has inaugurated the first international food and chemical laboratories in Nigeria and stakeholders in the industrial sector are already seeing their benefits to Nigerian exporters . The laboratories, said to have received...
by Adaora Anozie | Apr 24, 2015 | General News, Industry News, News Flash
In a bid to properly address the challenges in the Nigerian agrofood and packaging industry, Nigeria ‘agrofood & plastprintpack Tradefair 2015 is bringing together professionals from all over the world to Lagos to discuss and show a way forward in the sector. The...
by Adaora Anozie | Apr 24, 2015 | Government/Regulatory, News Flash
The signing into law of the Bio-safety bill by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as his tenure clocks out, by key stakeholders in many spheres has been appraised as a laudable milestone in the domestication of modern biotechnology in Nigeria. The biosafety bill,...
by Adaora Anozie | Apr 23, 2015 | General News, Government/Regulatory, News Flash
In view of the increasing occurrence of food poisoning especially after more than 80 MEMBERS of Strathmore University suffered same fate in Nairobi, Kenya – the World Health Organisation has released guidelines for food safety. The victims admitted to hospital were...