Nafdac in a sentence

NAFDAC encourages healthcare professionals and patients to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of the medicinal products through the use of NAFDAC E-reporting platforms available on the agency website.

Mohammed advised intending businesses to visit the nearest NAFDAC office for guidance on how to register their products in line with NAFDAC approved guidelines.

Speakers on various topics at a one- day interaction forum between NAFDAC and traders in Birnin Kebbi Tuesday, concurred that the trend was endemic which NAFDAC should bring to an end.

Furthermore, the company, (Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (Abuja plant) has been directed to recall the implicated batch of the unwholesome product and report to NAFDAC for effective monitoring.

In this decade a crusading pharmacist, Dora Akunyili, became the head of Nigeria’s food and drug regulator, NAFDAC, as well as a figurehead of the fight against bad medicines in Nigeria.

Mr Tamanuwa Andrew-Baba, NAFDAC’s Deputy Director, Investigation and Enforcement, Pharmaceutical Enforcement Directorate, Kaduna State, made the disclosure on Friday in Kaduna.

NAFDAC in a statement disclosed that the two medical products were identified in Uzbekistan, a Central Asian nation, and reported to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of course, there was no debate as to why Akunyili was able to achieve those remarkable feats during her tenure as the head honcho of NAFDAC.

One person who works in quality assurance for a pharma company based in Ogun State tells me that he hasn’t even heard of NAFDAC’s traceability goal.

Ononiwu was joined in the destruction exercise by NAFDAC Zonal Directors in Southeast and Southsouth as well as Coordinators in the 11 States in the two zones.

Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said the exit of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) pharmaceutical company is not responsible for increase in prices of drugs in the country.

She also advised healthcare professionals and consumers to report any suspicion or adverse drug reaction caused by substandard and falsified medicines to the nearest NAFDAC office.

She said the menace of drug hawking poses serious challenge to Healthcare Delivery System in the country and has underscored NAFDAC’s resolute determination to totally eradicate the illicit trade.

Some of the challenges were issues such as obtaining National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) waivers, high administrative costs, and low manufacturers' capacity.

The country’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) confirmed Sunday morning its plans to ascertain the claim by its Taiwan and Malaysian counterparts.

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has once again raised concerns about the health risks associated with consuming fruits ripened with calcium carbide.

The NAFDAC boss also spoke on manpower, saying the agency is in need of more staff, especially on post marketing surveillance.

Worried about the effect on exporters and the country at large, Adeyeye said, NAFDAC was responding to the challenge by initiating a collaborative adventure with government agencies at the ports.

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Despite this, NAFDAC has not responded to our letters or provided any feedback on the matter,” the statement concluded.