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Nigeria: Fresh concerns over tainted commercially processed palm wine

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Fresh concerns over tainted palm wine
Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:00 CHUKWUMA MUANYA Features - Natural Health
It is replete with yeast, vitamins C, A and B. Palm wine is used in ethno-medicine as a prophylactic against malaria and also used to increase milk flow in postpartum mothers; and a mixture with bitter leaf for treating measles, small pox and chicken pox.

But recent studies suggest that ?processed? palm wine is often tainted with chemicals and heavy metals and could be one of the major causes of rising liver and kidney failures, cancers, and hypertension in the country. CHUKWUMA MUANYA writes...
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