It says this dirty diesel, with more than 100 percent the sulfur levels allowed in Europe, is a health and environmental hazard.

The report entitled Dirty Diesel from Swiss watchdog group Public Eye says the companies take advantage of weak African standards to use cheap and dirty additives to create what’s called African Quality fuels.

The practice is not illegal.

The report quotes Swiss trading giants insisting that the blends meet standards in the importing countries, with the largest amounts going to Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana.

But Public Eye accuses the companies of lowering a fuel’s quality to just above a country’s legal limits to maximize profits by adding toxic products known to cause respiratory diseases.

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