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NAFDAC to phase out alcoholic drinks in satchets

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NAFDAC to phase out alcoholic drinks in satchets

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control  (NAFDAC) says it is committed to discourage drug abuse by stopping the approval of alcohol packaged in sachets.

The agency also said local herbal medicines which meet up standard would be encouraged in place of the alcoholic drinks. 

This was made known by the  Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye on Tuesday at an interactive session with stakeholders in food and drugs manufacturing in Ibadan.

She added that the packaging of alcohol into sachets had encouraged drug abuse in the society which the agency had always preached against. 

The NAFDAC boss said, “The agency remains undaunted in its efforts to reduce the incidence of substandard and falsified products as well as the smuggling and abuse of various products.”

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“The agency is keen on having herbal medicines widely accepted as safe, hence we will continue to test them for clinical efficacy before giving full registration status.

“We are also on a mission to turn herbal medicines into products that can be commercialised through collaboration between traditional herbalists and academic researchers.

“In encouraging local manufacturing of medicines that are usually imported, the agency will enforce a five-year importation permit given to manufacturers with a mandate that they produce five-year plan geared towards local manufacturing upon renewal.

“In addition, the agency will also give five-year exclusive rights to companies to market their products without competition if they develop food and drugs that show demonstrable research and development innovation.

“This development will be effective before the end of the first quarter of the year,” she said.

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