IN its effort to mitigate the circulation of substandard and falsified medicines in the country, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down six local manufacturing pharmaceutical companies.
In a press statement on Tuesday, Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the companies were closed following nationwide surveillance on their manufacturing activities.
With dismay, Adeyeye noted that despite appropriate notification, the local manufacturers failed to meet minimum Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards in line with extant requirements which are required to assure the quality, safety, and efficacy of pharmaceutical products.
The NAFDAC boss maintained that the companies will remain shut until the respective GMP compliances are met.
She further stated that the current actions are to serve as a warning to all local and foreign manufacturers who may not want to comply with basic GMP requirements, to join the Agency in its renewed campaign to rid the country of substandard and falsified (SF) medicines.
The agency recently blacklisted a foreign manufacturer of finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs) and delisted its local representative for gross violation of NAFDAC extant laws and regulations.
Adeyeye stated that ‘’NAFDAC owes the nation the onerous responsibility of safeguarding public health and will not backtrack in ensuring that only medicines that are safe, efficacious and of good quality are accessible to the Nigerians’’
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