The Commissioner for Health Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi stated this at the Food Safety Stakeholders Forum in Ibadan on Monday.
Packs of styrofoam containers filled with food and ready to be sent to the customers at Obalende in Lagos on January 23, 2024. State’s Commissioner for Health Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi stated this at the Food Safety Stakeholders Forum held at the Conference Room of the Ministry in Ibadan on Monday.
Ajetunmobi said the menace of food poisoning, indiscriminate use of chemical products for food production, processing, packaging, and other sharp practices being carried out by food business operators have become of great concern in the state.
The Oyo State Government also inaugurated a task force on food safety. It comprises members from the State Food Safety Management Committee, the Nigeria Police Force , the Association of Table Water Producers , the Association of Canteen Workers, and others. While speaking, the Director of Food, Water and Laboratory Services, State Ministry of Health, Afusat Akande, highlighted the basic requirements for the actors along the food chain to meet before they can be certified.
According to her, the requirements include routine medical fitness certificates from designated state government hospitals, evidence of regular fumigation of production premises by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources recognised consultant, and water quality analysis by the Ministry of Health recognised consultant, among others.
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