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NAFDAC Tasks Bakers On Quality

This Day
Segun Awofadeji
17 June 2007

As part of efforts to ensure that only standardised and regulated products are in circulation in the country, the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned bakers in Gombe State, to ensure that their products bear labels carrying all necessary information regarding their business addresses and the content of their products or face severe sanctions.

Similarly, the Agency warned that it would not hesitate to close down any company premise found selling fake drugs and other substandard products as well as prosecute such dealers.

The state Co-ordinator of NAFDAC, Malam Abdulsalam Ozigis, who gave the warning, while briefing newsmen on the activities of the Agency said "NAFDAC will no longer tolerate bakers who do not give adequate information regarding the full address of their bakery as well as the ingredients their products are made of".

According to him, "the required information include bakery address, weight of the product, baking date and the ingredients used in baking the product", stressing the need for the bakers to ensure that the products were free of bromate because of the danger it poses to consumers' health.

He noted that the Agency was aware that some bakers do not place labels carrying full information on their products, emphasising that "we will no longer tolerate this as their products must carry labels that give their full addresses, the weight of the products, when they were baked and the ingredients they were made of".

While stressing the Agency's efforts in ensuring the bakers' full compliance to the regulations, the NAFDAC co-ordinator said the Agency would soon organise a seminar to sensitise them on ways to conduct their businesses in order to ensure that they keep to standards.

He disclosed that the Agency had carried out surveillance on sellers of groundnut oil, following complaints of adulteration of their products by some people with a view to protecting members of the public from adulterated products and the health hazards as well as bringing to book the perpetrators of the dastardly acts.

Ozigis added that NAFDAC would soon commence screening of pharmacies and patent medicine stores in the State, and therefore urged drug dealers who still had fake and substandard products on their shelves or in stores to voluntarily surrender them.

While appealing to the public to give NAFDAC useful information that would assist it in tracking down fake drug dealers, he warned that the Agency would not hesitate to close down any premises found selling fake products.

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