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2018-12-27 |

Nigeria no longer dumping ground for modified products

Federal Government has disclosed that the dumping of unauthorised Genetically Modified Organisms, GMO, in Nigeria has been reduced to the barest minimum.

Speaking in Abuja, during the presentation of the scorecard of National Biosafety Management Agency, NBMA, Director General of the agency, Mr. Rufus Ebegba, said efforts have been heightened to safeguard the country against harmful GM products. He further stated that risks to human health from modern biotechnology practice and the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are at their barest minimum.