SON seizes fake food items, tyres worth N2 million in Plateau
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has seized expired and substandard food items and fairly used tyres worth N2 million in Plateau State.
The State Plateau Coordinator of SON, Mr Gambo Dimka, revealed this on Tuesday in Jos. He said the items were seized during SON’s surveillance installs from January to April.
Dimka said the items seized comprised food items and fairly used tyres which were either expired or substandard and not safe for human consumption or use.
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He further pointed out that asides from the raiding of stalls for expired and substandard products as a means of riding the society of substandard items from the unsuspecting public, “SON holds various sensitisation programmes to enlighten the public”.
He advised that the public, asides from looking out for expiry dates of the products, should also look for the SON quality marks such as the “MANCAP logo, to ensure the products had been certified fit by the SON”.
He warned those engaging in the act of selling unwholesome and substandard products to the public to desist from the practice or face the wrath of the law.
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