FOOD SAFETY CAMPAIGN
Applying the right and useful campaign strategies to reduce the incidence of food-borne illness among consumers can’t be complete if you don’t have the buy-in of relevant stakeholders in attendance at your sensitization and awareness campaigns especially representatives of some of the markets who are arguably the most common name on the lips of traders when food items are discussed. .
Thus, at the last Lagos Food Safety Conference and Exhibition organised by the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) in conjunction with FOODDOTCOMACADEMY SERVICES, a food entrepreneurship training centre, the attendance of the Executives and traders of Shukura Yam Sellers Association and Mile 12 Perishable Foodstuff International Market, Africa’s largest fresh produce market was strongly felt.
Experts shared experience and expertise on how Nigeria farmers and traders can produce and preserve for example, tomatoes all year round and adopting the global best practices of using plastic crates for fresh produce transportation from farm to markets and storage so as to minimize and reduce the percentage of Post Harvest Loss (PHP) in tomato and other fresh produce value chain instead of selling rotten produce to customers that will ultimately affect the quality of the end products. Also, suggestions were made on how the three tiers of government can assist to provide and improve on existing market infrastructures and work hand in hand with market associations and unions to raise the consciousness and capacity building of traders to adopt Good Hygiene Practices (GHP) and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and equip them with modern and right technologies.
FOODDOTCOMACADEMY welcomes food manufacturing companies, input companies in and outside Nigeria, relevant department of food and agribusiness sections of embassies, banks and other financial institutions, ministries, departments and agencies (MDA) of government to partner with us so as to sustain the tempo on food safety campaigns.
Food safety is not only a shared responsibility but everyone’s business.
If it is NOT safe, then it is NOT food!
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