LASCOPA’s General Manager, Afolabi Solebo, explained that fungi on rotten tomatoes can produce aflatoxins — toxic substances that can cause liver damage and other severe illnesses. He stressed that cooking, boiling, or frying does NOT destroy the toxins, meaning contaminated tomatoes remain harmful even after heat exposure.
Solebo added that:
“A healthy person is determined by what he or she consumes from time to time.”
He urged Lagosians not to risk their health because spoiled tomatoes are cheaper, and advised them to examine food items properly before buying. He also encouraged residents to dispose of spoiled food safely and report the sale of unsafe or contaminated products to relevant government agencies.
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Better for them oo,beacause that rotten tomatoes are very poisonous and harmful to human health😔
ReplyDeleteHope they'll listen. It's not only in Lagos ooh.
ReplyDeleteInstead of warming consumers, warn sellers not to sell rotten tomatoes and send taskforce to the markets to enforce that order. Poverty causes people to buy the rotten tomatoes at cheaper price but it's not there for them to buy, they won't.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteIf there are no buyers, there will be no sellers.
DeleteThis is what Yoruba people call "ESA" Some families live on this, especially now that Tomato is very expensive.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to avoid it is to stay away from road side food seller
ReplyDeleteThose people are the major consumer of it
💯 true
DeleteWhy don't they have food inspectors go around the different markets and check the food items being sold, then arrest and fine offenders?
ReplyDeleteOver here in the normal country that we live in, you dare not sell spoilt foodstuff, you can go to jail
You want this market women to kill them.
DeletePeople that eat mama put should beware
ReplyDeleteIf the roads from the farms are good and proper storage facilities and soft loans available for farmers and traders, these wouldn't be available for consumption.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, when I went through very hard times from 2019 to 2022...these tomatoes were what I ate sha
Anon 9:40, your own no go spoil. you see that loan gangan, is what we talked about this morning. please, does anyone knows where one can get grants to start farming. I would really, really appreciate it. Thank you.
DeleteYou people should stop all these comments of warning the sellers or sending food inspectors abeg.
ReplyDeleteSo, a fully grown-up person will use his/her money to buy rotten tomatoes and justify it to hunger
It's only God that can safe us in this country. If you see how mouldy some of our dried foodstuffs are before they dry it for sale, especially during rainy season. I saw where one woman was dying unripe plantain for plantain flour and moulds have covered some even some dry pepper were left to rotten before drying. It is well jare
ReplyDeleteMay God continue to protect us
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