FCCPC seals up 3 milk factories in Onitsha, arrests one, confiscate equipment

Officials of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, connected Wednesday sealed 3 factories successful Awada country of Onitsha implicit non-compliance with acceptable accumulation standards.

The enforcement squad of the committee who raided the factories destroyed freshly produced milk, packed successful containers and was being scooped into cans.

The South East Zonal Coordinator of the commission, Obialor Francisca Ndidiamaka, who led the enforcement lamented that the diary products being produced by the factories represent poison to members of the nationalist who devour them.

She told journalists: “We cannot fold our hands and proceed to watch, portion these radical nutrient poisonous drinks and merchantability to unsuspecting members of the public.

“Look astatine the situation wherever they are producing, it is dirty. They prime integrative bottles from the streets, rinse them with soiled h2o to vessel their soya milk.

“They nutrient successful precise unhygienic environment, they bundle them without immoderate signifier of PPEs, they conscionable grip with their bare hands. No treated h2o oregon immoderate signifier of investigation connected the finished products, they conscionable bundle it and merchantability to unsuspecting consumers.”

Obialor stated that her squad had archetypal visited the owners of the factory, issuing ‘stop production’ notice, portion inviting the owners of the factories to their bureau successful Awka for briefing connected request to compliance...