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The Nigerian Agency for Food and Drug Administration
and Control (NAFDAC), has announced the banning of foreign beans into
the country except those screened by the agency.
The acting Director General of the Agency, Mrs. Yetunde Oni who
disclosed this at the awareness/ sensitization workshop on safe and
responsible use of regulated Agricultural inputs for stakeholders in the
North Central Zone in Minna emphasized that only beans screened by the
Agency will be allowed into the country in order to be sure of their
safety.
According to her “we will recall that these banned beans produce
that have been banned by the European Union (EU) are the ones that never
passed through NAFDAC.All the beans that passed through NAFDAC and
issued EU certification do not get rejected but the ones that never
passed through NAFDAC are the ones that have been banned”. She however
called on all relevant Agencies to be awake to their responsibilities.
“It is not entirely the function of NAFDAC but because we have seen
that beans is a raw material into a final product that is regulated by
NAFDAC, we are now talking of collaboration with one another so that all
relevant stakeholders will join hands towards a common goal of ensuring
that only good quality regulated products are available for
consumption, sales, distribution, advertisement, and importation into
the country.”
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