The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has clarified issues concerning a media report that pharmaceutical import dropped by 63 per cent in two years. The report, which quoted a multilateral agency, the International Trade Centre stated that difficulty in accessing foreign exchange, devaluation of the Naira, attendant high inflation had reduced imports, which was corroborated …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has mapped out its strategic plans to take the herbal medicine practice to a greater height where products would be globally acceptable and competitive in the international market. In her message to commemorate the 2023 International Traditional Medicine Day, which is celebrated every 31st August, the agency’s Director General, …

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has intensified efforts to bring all the major stakeholders in the exports trade at the nation’s ports to align with the appropriate electronic channel to obtain export certification. To this end, the agency has called for the collaboration of the various trade groups in the export business on the need …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has not give approval to a local herbal medicine Glucozil, produced by Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, according to the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye. In a statement on Tuesday, the NAFDAC DG said that, although the agency listed Glucozil capsule on 10th November 2020 for the management …

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) in Kwara State has unfolded its plans to collaborate with the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) to reduce the menace of fake and substandard drugs in the state. The society noted that. although it is not within its jurisdiction to enforce relevant provisions of …

The Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Moji Adeyeye; and the Registrar of the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN), Babashehu Ahmed have reiterated the need for ethical drug distribution in the country. They stressed that the ethical distribution of pharmaceuticals is crucial to winning the fight against fake, adulterated, and spurious medicines. The …

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned food manufacturing companies that it would no longer accept poorly destroyed expired or stolen products sneaking into the market through scavengers at waste dump site, thereby endangering lives of innocent consumers, particularly, children. At the agency’s Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Directorate Stakeholder’s Engagement with food sector operators …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said the illicit activities of drug hawkers endanger the nation’s security. The agency said drug hawkers are the major distributors and suppliers of narcotics to criminal networks, like armed bandits, insurgents, kidnappers and armed robbers. NAFDAC’s Director General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, said this at a sensitisation workshop on: The Dangers …

The Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has urged nursing mothers to always espouse optimal breastfeeding of their children with a view to lowering the risk of breast and ovarian cancers. During the 2023 World Breastfeeding Week celebration, Adeyeye said that breastfed babies have stronger immunity, and a reduced risk …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control(NAFDAC) has warned the general public that fruits ripened with calcium carbide and buying drugs from hawkers is a complete risk that could lead to death. The Director-General, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this on Tuesday, in her keynote address during the media sensitisation workshop on “Dangers of drug hawking and …