Doctor Chinonso Egemba popularly known as the Aproko Doctor is a licenced Nigerian Medical Doctor that normally creates educative Contents that focuses mostly on Health on his social media handles (X, Facebook and YouTube).
This morning he dropped a video on his Facebook and X Social media handles in which he stated that the newspapers used as food wraps are not safe and that alternatives should be chosen by customers who patronize people that wrap for with newspapers.
The Doctor said that Newspapers are not safe to be used to wrap food because of the presence of Arsenic and Lead in it due to the rigorous printing process it goes through at the printing press.
According to him, those elements (Arsenic and Lead) when accumulated in the human body over a long time can cause serious illnesses like Cancer and in the case of children, can make their brain to be dull.
He recommended that people who buy Suya or akara from food vendors should carry their own plates and use it to eat their food as it is much safer that way. He said that the side effects of eating food from newspaper is not seen immediately because the metals are accumulated in the human body for long period before becoming harmful.
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