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New discoveries including six different brands of ice cream marketed in Lagos and Ogun States that were tainted with toxic chemical, melamine, has raised fresh concerns over safety of dairy products and its link with increasing kidney failures across Nigeria.
The recent discovery of abnormal quantities of melamine in some ice creams and bulk milk powders marketed in the country has raised fresh fears over safety of dairy products. It has left many critics wondering whether the toxic chemical has been in the system long before now and responsible for the increasing cases of kidney failure.
Bulk milk powder, usually imported from China, is used in making almost all confectioneries from bread, meat pie, cake, candy, chocolate, ice cream, yoghurt, biscuit, sweet to mention but a few.
In recent times, melamine, a plastic-making industrial compound that was added to milk powder to cheat quality tests, has been found in cartons of milk and some dairy exports in China. It has also been shown that the chemical sometimes accidentally leaches into the food supply in low levels, from things like plastic dinnerware. It can also seep in from some pesticides and fertilizers.
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