The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it has put in place additional measures to curb the incidence of unbranded cereals and other food items of industrial sizes.The food materials, it said, enter into the open markets from the warehouses of food manufacturing companies causing health hazards for the undiscerning consumers because of the mode of dispensing in unsanitary conditions.
The agency stated this at the end-of-year stakeholders open dialogue and feedback session with food manufacturing companies.A statement by the Resident Media Consultant to NAFDAC, Sayo Akintola on yesterday, quoted the Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, as having said that going forward, the agency would be more critical with the process of issuing permits for importation of bulk food raw materials from 2024.
Adeyeye who was represented by the Director of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FSAN), Mrs. Eva Edwards, said that the agency was concerned about the perennial problem of ubiquity of bulk food items that are found in the markets, possibly from the manufacturing plants or their suppliers, describing it as unacceptable.The director general noted that the items enter the country because companies have applied to use them in the manufacture of their NAFDAC registered products.
