Business NESG, Ministry Hold Food Safety Dialogue
The dialogue will be the first in a series of dialogues in the development of a roadmap of capacity building activities in support of Nigeria’s food and feed safety modernization efforts in Abuja.
The food industry in Nigeria is highly regulated. The country operates a multiple-agency food safety control system which is mostly sectoral. Food safety legislation is also fragmented between the three tiers of government: federal, state, and local governments. Other partners are Food & Agriculture Export Alliance , the United States Department of Agriculture , the University of Missouri , and AGRA.
The major challenges facing the enhancement of food safety in the country include a lack of awareness of the socio-economic importance of food safety, paucity of data and information on the incidence of food-borne disease outbreaks, lack of understanding of food safety and quality standards as outlined in international agreements.
Other issues are inability to enforce compliance with international standards and global best practices, inadequate infrastructure and resources to support scientific risk analysis and upgrading of food safety regulatory systems, inefficient food supply chain and poor traceability system.
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