Eric Dumo
To reduce the health and environmental risks encountered by Nigerians as a result of the consumption of harmful chemicals through food, air and water pollution, stakeholders in the science and technology sector have called for safer practices to ensure the reduction of such toxicants.
The experts made this call during the maiden edition of the Nigerian Society for Toxicological Sciences conference held in Abuja earlier in the week.
The President of the NSTS, Prof. Uche Osunkwo, said as a body of professionals in the science and technology industry, they would continue to contribute meaningfully to the development of new systems and ideas in the view to safeguarding the health of citizens and protection of the environment as well.
According to him, the Nigerian economy is losing huge amount of foreign exchange annually from what should have accrued to it from agricultural…
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