The Cancer Control Programme has appealed to Nigerian Universities to expand research on the processing and packaging of foods in polythene (cellophane).
NAN reports that many households, restaurants and food vendors have adopted packaging foods in polythene.
Dr Ramatu Hassan, the National Coordinator of the Programme, told NAN in Abuja on Thursday that the programme was yet to establish that such food packaging cause cancer.
Hassan noted that there are growing concerns on this, adding ``the programme urges the Nigerian academia to widen their research on this subject for proper guidance to the stakeholders’’.
She said Departments of Biochemistry, Food Technology and Chemistry from the Nigerian universities should award project topics to students to enable them establish findings and remedies for the problems.
She said there were misconceptions about what caused cancer, but that recently some of the findings were internet-based.
Hassan explained that the internet-based findings were done in some settings that were entirely different from Nigeria.
She added that conducting research locally would assist stakeholders on the best remedies in the control of the disease in Nigeria.
Hassan called for proper medical check-up for early detection of diseases to reduce high cost of treating and managing it.
``Unless you go for medical checks, you may not know that you have problems and urges Nigerians to go for regular health checks,’’ she said.
Hassan also cautioned Nigerians to desist from taking traditional concoctions as a remedy for dysentery.
``Mostly, passing a blood-spattered stool is one of the symptoms of colon cancer,’’ she said.
(NAN)
NAN reports that many households, restaurants and food vendors have adopted packaging foods in polythene.
Dr Ramatu Hassan, the National Coordinator of the Programme, told NAN in Abuja on Thursday that the programme was yet to establish that such food packaging cause cancer.
Hassan noted that there are growing concerns on this, adding ``the programme urges the Nigerian academia to widen their research on this subject for proper guidance to the stakeholders’’.
She said Departments of Biochemistry, Food Technology and Chemistry from the Nigerian universities should award project topics to students to enable them establish findings and remedies for the problems.
She said there were misconceptions about what caused cancer, but that recently some of the findings were internet-based.
Hassan explained that the internet-based findings were done in some settings that were entirely different from Nigeria.
She added that conducting research locally would assist stakeholders on the best remedies in the control of the disease in Nigeria.
Hassan called for proper medical check-up for early detection of diseases to reduce high cost of treating and managing it.
``Unless you go for medical checks, you may not know that you have problems and urges Nigerians to go for regular health checks,’’ she said.
Hassan also cautioned Nigerians to desist from taking traditional concoctions as a remedy for dysentery.
``Mostly, passing a blood-spattered stool is one of the symptoms of colon cancer,’’ she said.
(NAN)
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