NAFDAC shuts 6 pharmaceutical companies over substandard medicines

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down six local manufacturers of finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs.) The Director General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye in a statement , Monday , said the pharmaceutical companies were shut following a nationwide surveillance on their manufacturing activities. Anxiety in Minna as […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down six local manufacturers of finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs.)

The Director General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye in a statement , Monday , said the pharmaceutical companies were shut following a nationwide surveillance on their manufacturing activities.

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Prof. Adeyeye, said in spite of appropriate notification, the companies failed to meet minimum Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards in line with extant requirements which were required to assure l quality, safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products.

She said the companies would remain shut until the respective requirements were met.

The NAFDAC boss said the companies were also shut to serve as deterrent to all local and foreign manufacturers who may not want to comply with basic good manufacturing practice requirements or join the agency in its renewed campaign to rid the country of substandard and falsified medicines.

She said, “NAFDAC owes the nation the onerous responsibility of safeguarding public health and will not relent in ensuring that only medicines that are safe, efficacious and of good quality are accessible to the Nigerians.”

The agency had recently blacklisted a foreign manufacturer of finished pharmaceutical products, and delisted its local representative for gross violation of NAFDAC extant laws and regulations.