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Crown Flour Mill Limited, a subsidiary of Olam Group, says it is committed to food fortification and will deliver Nigeria’s first vitamin premix facility.
The company said the delivery was in line with the 90 per cent food fortification compliance target set at the penultimate edition of the Nigerian Food Processing and Nutrition Leadership Forum.
The food manufacturer made this known at third annual gathering of the top players in the food industry in the country, held virtually on Thursday.
Speaking at the forum on the firm’s commitment to participate in the Micronutrient Fortification Index, Managing Director, Crown Flour Mill Limited, Mr Ashish Pande, said improving the food fortification levels of staple foods was one agenda that Olam Grains was committed to, adding that sustainability was one of the key enablers of the company.
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Significant progress made fortifying Nigerian staple food with micronutrients that are essential to achieve better health would have been greater if the edible oil sector is centralized.
This was revealed, recently , when Nigerian Food Processing Companies announced progress on fortifying staple food in the last three years.
Following three years of leadership engagement by the federal government and CEOs of the nation’s largest food processing companies, significant progress has been made fortifying Nigerian staple foods with micronutrients that are essential to achieving better health and nutrition for all.
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The House of Representatives has urged Nigerians to procure and install fire extinguishers and gas leakage detectors in their homes.
The green chamber also mandated its committees Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Commerce and Gas Resources to investigate causes of gas explosions in the country.
The resolutions followed a motion moved by Ben Kalu on Thursday during plenary.
Moving the motion, Kalu listed some of the major gas explosions in Nigeria over the past few years.
Kalu, in his motion blamed the explosions on “failure to enforce standards, failure to clamp down on violators and failure to prevent citing of gas stations and refill outlets in residential areas by regulatory bodies, including the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON).”
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The House of Representatives on Thursday unveiled plans to investigate the rising incidences of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) related explosions across the country.
The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion sponsored by the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, which resulted into death of Nigerian citizens.
In his lead debate, Hon. Kalu called for serious action to be put into the required measures to curb the explosions that result in a sad waste of lives and properties in some states of the federation including Akwa Ibom, Kaduna and Lagos.