By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening strategic partnerships with relevant government institutions in the fight against substandard, falsified and unwholesome regulated products in Nigeria.
Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the Agency, reiterated this when she received the Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC), Bashir Abubakar, in her office.
She notes that partnerships with government institutions and relevant stakeholders is critical to the Agency’s efforts to curb the importation, distribution, and circulation of counterfeit medicines, unwholesome food products, and other substandard regulated products.
Professor Adeyeye says the agency will continue to ensure that regulated products circulating in Nigeria are safe, wholesome, efficacious, of consistent quality, and compliant with established regulatory standards.
She adds that NAFDAC’s operations are anchored on compliance with national and international regulatory standards.
The Chief Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission, Bashir Abubakar, commended the Agency for its efforts in tackling the menace of counterfeit medicines and unwholesome products.
He said that as Nigeria’s Ombudsman, the PCC receives complaints from members of the public and stakeholders across different sectors, both within and outside the country.
He advocated the expansion of NAFDAC’s inter-agency collaboration framework to enhance intelligence gathering, monitoring and enforcement across the supply chain, and contribute to a more holistic approach to combating counterfeiting and the circulation of substandard and unwholesome products in Nigeria.
