An unhealthy practice is developing more and more in Togo. It consists of resellers of food and other edible foods, to replace sugar with formalin, a toxic chemical compound. At the expense of the health of consumers and the guilty silence of the authorities and consumer associations. To sweeten certain foods such as fruit juice, appetizers, bread, cakes, porridge and other various drinks and sugary foods, the resellers prefer to use the formalin they say sweeter to the detriment of ordinary sugar, the sucrose. We find the formaldehyde used in the kitchen so in the markets and retailers in the form of small grains, sold from 100FCFA. "It costs a lot less than normal sugar but is much more efficient," says an anonymous juice reseller at a primary school, confirming the mercantilist view behind the practice that consumers still want more sugar. Some say to a local duck that they do it to attract customers. "I use formalin to have a lot of customers. When the b...