The Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management, NAFDAC, has shut down 10 substandard and unregistered bakeries and eight desk water factories in Bonny Native Authorities Space of Rivers State.
This was contained in a press release issued on Tuesday in Port Harcourt by NAFDAC’s Public Relations Officer, South-South Zone, Cyril Monye.
NAFDAC mentioned the transfer is to rid Rivers State of pretend and unwholesome merchandise.
In response to Monye, safety operatives from Finima and Bonny Divisional Headquarters offered safety to NAFDAC officers in the course of the three-day operation.
The assertion which quoted the NAFDAC Director, South-South Zone, Chukwuma Oligbo, mentioned: “The transfer turned crucial following the company’s painstaking investigations, surveillance and customers complaints emanating from the Island regarding substandard bakeries and sachet/desk water factories.
“It was found that a few of the quack bakeries have been producing in ramshackle services made with woods and rusty corrugated iron sheets with inappropriate baking gear whereas the employees weren’t correctly kitted.”
The company mentioned the breads within the bakeries have been saved in a really unhygienic method, including that some bakeries additionally bear the names of common breads in Port Harcourt.
“A lot of the bakeries weren’t registered by NAFDAC and unregisterable as a result of they can not meet the minimal requirement for registration, whereas few that have been registered by the company have expired licenses or have relocated from their preliminary place of registration in Port Harcourt to Bonny Island with out notifying the company for formal documentation and obligatory inspections,” it added.
On the desk water factories, Oligbo mentioned a few of the factories producing sachet water weren’t utilizing filtration gear and a facility, whereas manufacturing of bottled and jar water was manually crammed within the jars with a regionally improvised machine as an alternative of an automatic course of.
The zonal director additional urged those that are in default of their product license renewal to make use of the waiver thoughtfully from January to March and renew their licenses.
NAFDAC final Wednesday revealed that it closed down two sachet water factories in Aluu, Ikwerre Native Authorities Space of the state on account of the manufacturing of untreated and unregistered sachet water, following credible data acquired about their actions.