https://thecitizenng.com/ondo-govt-bans-production-consumption-of-local-gin-ogogoro/ Nigeria's leading online newspaper Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://thecitizenng.com/ondo-govt-bans-production-consumption-of-local-gin-ogogoro/#comment-107 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:57:00 +0000 http://thecitizenng.com/?p=65681#comment-107 Banning may not solve the problem. What would happen is that people would begin to produce it illegally. Recollect that ‘ogogoro’ has always been called ‘illicit gin’ meaning it is not allowed by law, while its foreign and imported varieties are openly used. Why is this? Everything just rests on mode of production and brewing technology. What government must do is to educate the people on why methanol is present in ‘ogogoro’ but absent in imported spirits even though the latter has also same starting materials as those for ‘ogogoro’ production. Chemists and biochemists must be at the forefront of educating the people here to tell them how to discard methanol from the first distillate. Additionally, hydrometers and other associated tools must be made available to the people and the people taught how to use them to know when their distillate is free from methanol. Alternatively heating the broth on a thermostated heater would help a lot in estimating when methanol must have been driven off.

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