Monday, December 09, 2024 - The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a warning to bakeries across Nigeria, advising them against the use of saccharin and bromate in bread production. The Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made the warning during her appearance on a News Forum.
She emphasized that bakeries caught using these substances would face
severe consequences. “This is where our post-marketing surveillance comes in.
We go out routinely to look for certain products; sometimes it may be due to
complaints through our reform office," Prof. Adeyeye said.
She highlighted that NAFDAC has already taken action against bakeries
found using bromate in bread production. “We have closed down a few bakeries
because they are using bromate during bread production. If we find out, or
someone suspected or tasted the bread and it has bromate, we will shut the
bakery down,” she stated.
Prof. Adeyeye also mentioned that NAFDAC has closed several water
production factories due to substandard production or unhygienic conditions.
“Our Regulatory Inspection Directorate is important to us because it ensures
that what is brought to us at the point of registration is what is still in the
market. When we do inspection at the beginning, we go there and take samples
and test the product,” she explained.
She further noted that some businesses, after their products are
registered, might alter their production processes or formulas. “Sometimes
after they know that the product has been registered, they start changing the
process of production or formula. This is why post-marketing surveillance
monitoring is very important. It ensures that what they brought to us is still
what is in the market in order to maintain standard. That is what is called
market control,” she concluded.
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