The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has warned food manufacturing companies that it would no longer accept poorly destroyed expired or stolen products sneaking into the market through scavengers at the waste dump site.
A statement by the Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the Agency’s Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Directorate Stakeholder’s Engagement with food sector operators in Lagos.
She insisted that “When a product is not certified by NAFDAC nobody should consume it. The unbranded products in the market, do not have NAFDAC registration/marketing authorisation number.”
Adeyeye also warned Nigerians against patronising unbranded cereals in the open market.
‘’We cannot speak to the safety of unbranded food in the open market. We do not know where they have come from. We don’t know anything about the expiry date. We cannot trace,” she said.
The statement added that in 2021 and 2022, the Agency carried out a lot of investigation and enforcement activities on unbranded cereals leading to the arrest of some people that were selling online in Onitsha and bringing them to Lagos.
