Public Health: LASCOPA uncovers contaminated milk warehouse in Lagos

*The Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency reveals the warehouse personnel distributing unwholesome products flouted safety regulations for food and beverage sector

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

In a move to safeguard the citizens’ wellbeing, the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) has ordered the closure of a distribution warehouse located on Wilmer Street, Isheri-Ojodu Area of the state.

ConsumerConnect reports the Lagos State Government (LASG) in a statement said that it ordered closure of the facility, after Mr. Afolabi Solebo, Esq., General Manager of LASCOPA, had led an enforcement team to the distribution warehouse.

It was gathered earlier, a video had surfaced online showing a middle-aged man selling hazardous and contaminated milk to unsuspecting members of the public on Ibidun Street, in the Ojuelegba area of Surulere in the state.

Solebo was quoted to have said the man disclosed during interrogation by men of the Nigeria Police Force, Area C Police Station, Surulere, that the products were collected from the warehouse on Wilmer Street, in Isheri, Ojodu-Berger.

The General Manager of LASCOPA also disclosed the actions taken against the warehouse were meant to ensure that further sales of the hazardous and contaminated milk are stopped and withdrawn from circulation.

This is with a view to protecting residents of Lagos State from consuming milk that is harmful to their health.

According to Solebo, the warehouse personnel distributing the unwholesome products to retailers flouted safety regulations of the food and beverage sector.

He also reassured consumers of the Lagos State Government’s zero tolerance for sales of hazardous and expired products.

“We, on our own part, will carry out a forensic investigation, through the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), to confirm the actual state of those products, because mere opening the product, we discovered that they smell,” said Solebo.