Nigeria: On NAFDAC's Drive for Healthy Bread

opinion

CONDUCT any survey any day, any time of Nigerians' preferred staple food and you will be shocked bread will top the list! Although the preparation and consumption of this high wheat content flour meal are undoubtedly ancient and global, the broadness of its acceptance as a befitting consumable is indeed due to its human body nourishing status having been globally certified by acclaimed food scientists and nutritionists as dependable source of protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, iron and calcium.

This fact is not lost on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria's institution charged with the regulation and control of pharmaceutical products and food.

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