The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, has warned bakeries in Nigeria to stop the use of saccharine and bromate for the production of bread.
The warning was given by the Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, while featuring on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum.
The DG warned that bakeries caught in the act would face the full consequences of their actions.
She said, “This is where our post-marketing surveillance comes in.
“We go out routinely to look for certain products. And sometimes it may be due to complaints through our reform office.
“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 bromated, we will shut the bakery down.
“We have equally closed down many water-producing factories as a result of substandard production. Or producing it in an unhygienic environment.
“Our Regulatory Inspection Directorate is important to us. This is 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. This is because “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. This is in order to maintain standard.
“That is what is called market control,” the DG said.
source: NAN
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