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Nigeria: Toxic grain threatens food security
The hospitalisation of 116 girls after consuming beans sprayed with harmful pesticides at a secondary school in northern Nigeria's Gombe State on 18 April has raised concerns about how dry foods are stored all around the country.
“Local farmers have the habit of pouring any storage chemicals they can find on their produce,” William Joseph, director of research at the Nigerian Stored Produce Research Institute (NSPRI) told IRIN in his office.
