Tag: Artificial ripening of fruits with carbide can shorten lifespan – NAFDAC Warns

Consumption of fruits ripened with calcium carbide may cause cancer, heart failure, kidney failure, and liver failure, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, has said. The Director General of the agency, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye made this known on Tuesday at the official flag-off of the agency’s media sensitisation workshop on the…