The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians, particularly healthcare providers, to one batch of counterfeit Meronem 1g injection in circulation across the country. The information is contained in a public alert Number 036/2023 by the agency’s Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, and issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja. …

Illicit sales and distribution of substandard and falsified medicines are a global threat that present huge public health challenges to national medicines regulatory authorities in developed and developing countries. They also pose catastrophic consequences on the local pharmaceutical industry. at the 21st NECCI PR Roundtable in Lagos on Thursday, the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug …

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has emphasised that the agency has collaborated and will continue to collaborate with National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to ensure a sustainable access to affordable and acceptable quality medicines for the citizens. She said that, as part of efforts to ensure that all Nigerians have access …

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has responded to a media report on the non-establishment of testing laboratory for fortification by the agency, which was said to have been made at the Nigeria Economic Summit Group in collaboration with the Civil Society Legislative Advisory Centre (CSLAC) and eHealth. In a statement on Monday, NAFDAC’s Director …

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 …