”The agency would ensure that Nigerians consume only products that have been registered and certified by it as the leading regulator of all such products in Africa.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has restated its commitment to ensuring that Nigerians only consume wholesome products.
The North-West Zonal Director of the agency, Josephine Daliyim, made this statement on Monday in Kaduna at a one-day sensitisation workshop for dealers on the registration of packaged edible oil under the ‘Micro-Scale in Nigeria’.
”The agency would ensure that Nigerians consume only products that have been registered and certified by it as the leading regulator of all such products in Africa.
”We cannot compromise public health and we will do the right thing to safeguard the health and lives of Nigerians,” she said.
According to her, NAFDAC’s core mandate includes the safeguarding public health, adding that the exercise was organized due to the myriad of public outcries about the unwholesome production of edible oil across the country.
She said,”There is no better time than now to have this awareness workshop as the need for it cannot be overemphasized.
”That during the agency’s regular surveillance activities, complaints have been received from the public for the proper regulation of the product.
