Official launch of a new set of compendium of all registered drugs, processed food, cosmetics, packaged water, medical devices and chemical by the Director-General of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Moji Adeyeye, will be one of the agenda of the forthcoming stakeholder’s consultative meeting in Lagos on August 20 and 21,
2018.
The publishing of the new NAFDAC compendium, which is a directory of all registered regulated products is one of the major landmark achievements of Adeyeye, since her assumption of office nine months
ago.
According to a statement by the agency’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, the NAFDAC compendium, which was originally known as NAFDAC Green Pages, was last published about 10 years ago.
Jimoh said the compendium was first introduced by the late Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Dora Akunyili, as part of her concerted efforts to equip Nigerians with appropriate information that will help them distinguish between fake and unregistered drugs, processed food and other regulated products.
He noted that participants at the forthcoming two-day consultative meeting include farmers, manufacturers, importers, marketers of animal feeds and poultry products, food products, cosmetics, pesticides, medical devices, herbal products and
chemicals.
“The consultative meeting will also afford the director–general of NAFDAC the opportunity to interact with the stakeholders to tackle some regulatory issues and challenges facing the food, herbal, medical devices, veterinary, chemical and allied
industries.
“Adeyeye will also announce her new policy measures to combat the influx of unregistered and counterfeit regulated products into the country.
“The director–general stressed that the agency takes very seriously the issue of attendance and participation of stakeholders at the consultative meeting and, therefore, urged all chief executives of invited companies to be physically present at the meeting,” he said.
