Kayode Shopekan
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned that Nigerians should avoid sachet water brands without reachable factory addresses.
The state Coordinator of the agency, Mr Gonzalez Nyor who disclosed this in Yola on Thursday, said the water brands did not indicate addresses on their wraps, nor the locations of their factories and the time of production remained unknown to the agency.
”There are a lot of sachet water manufacturers without proper addresses,” Nyor said, adding that the agency believes that sometimes the shady manufacturers produce water at the night.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelNyor advised Nigerians to be careful and vigilant when taking sachet water popularly known as pure water because unhygienic and poorly manufactured sachet water have flooded the market
Explaining the situation further, the Adamawa State NAFDAC coordinator said, ”If you go to the facilities, you will not see anybody or anything happening in the factories, but still their water is seen in the town.”
He however assured, that NAFDAC was working to arrest the situation and other similar infractions through intelligence gathering.
“Already, three water factories have been sealed in the state following the expiration and non-renewal of their production licences,” he said.
He said intelligence gathering revealed that many of even the duly registered producers do not maintain Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
“It was found that some of the manufacturers, after being registered and numbered, deviated from what they were licensed for,” he said, adding that during an inspection, the agency identified some factories with licences that expired four years ago, Nyor, said
