{"id":63903,"date":"2018-11-23T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63903"},"modified":"2018-11-23T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:49:03","slug":"nigerians-warned-against-using-sniper-to-preserve-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63903","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians warned against using sniper to preserve beans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Coordinating Director, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe, has warned dealers in beans to desist from using a sniper to store the produce as the chemical is too toxic for human consumption.<\/p>\n

Its Head of Media Unit of NAQS, Dr. Chigozie Nwodo, in a statement said Isegbe lamented that it was very alarming that a notoriously lethal substance has become a pesticide of choice for storage of beans in the country.<\/p>\n

Isegbe said: \u201cThe substance in question is an organophosphate called 2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate (DDVP) which is dangerous to health if misapplied as a pesticide. It is capable of causing death if inhaled or ingested in sufficient quantities. This is because the compound can bind to the lung or kidney and may become carcinogenic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSniper ought not to come in contact with any edible material that would eventually be ingested by human beings. Sniper in beans is a material equivalent of death in pot. Nigerians eat a lot of beans. It is a very popular staple food item in this part of the world. So it may not be an exaggeration to say that sniper in beans is a weapon of mass destruction.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

He urged beans dealers to respect the sanctity of human life. He advised them to withdraw beans already preserved with Sniper from the market and destroy them.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coordinating Director, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe, has warned dealers in beans to desist from using a sniper to store the produce as the chemical is too toxic for human consumption. Its Head of Media Unit of NAQS, Dr. Chigozie Nwodo, in a statement said Isegbe lamented that it was very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7652,8163,8162],"class_list":["post-63903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beans","tag-quarantine","tag-sniper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}