NAFDAC signs MoU With South Korea To Boost pharmaceutical Products

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) Seoul, South Korea.

Speaking astatine signing of the MoU successful South Korea, Director General (DG), of NAFDAC, Prof. Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye, said the MoU was to heighten practice successful the tract of aesculapian products, pharmaceuticals, including vaccines, aesculapian devices and successful vitro diagnostics.

She said the MoU was 1 of the bureau efforts to escaped the Nigeria’s marketplace of substandard and falsified medicine is simply a continuous one. “This is borne retired of the information that lives are astatine involvement arsenic these violators question to nett from their nefarious commercialized successful illicit medicines. The Agency is alert that they volition proceed to try, but NAFDAC is determined and resolute to beryllium up of them. To this end, we volition permission nary chromatic unturned successful our pursuit of those who chose to nett disconnected our lives arsenic a people. In reality, they airs existential menace to america and our loved ones”.

The Minster of Food and Drug Safety, South Korea Yu-Kyoung Oh, said South Korea was acceptable to enactment with Nigeria to guarantee reeducation of cause maltreatment and different related issues successful Nigeria.

In different development, Adeyeye, said connected June 7, 2024, the bureau arraigned 3 of specified persons earlier the Federal High Court, Kano. They see Mr. Amao Gideon, Alumona Godwin Okwiludili, Hillary Onah Paul Chigozie and Giddyson Healthcare Limited connected a five-count complaint of manufacturing, sale, organisation of substandard and falsified medicines.

She said these syndicates are progressive successful the manufacturing, organisation and merchantability of respective falsified medicine specified arsenic asiatic ampicillin 125 mg/5ml pulverization for suspension for children with zero progressive constituent among others.

She said for clarity, from the NAFDAC Kaduna Laboratory Services testing, determination is nary hint of medicine successful the formulations. This puts the diligent successful information of attraction nonaccomplishment and imaginable death.

Adeyeye noted the products were not registered by NAFDAC, the numbers connected the products are fake, truthful is the manufacturer’s code connected the label. “The amerciable factory, located successful Tafa municipality and Tafa section Government, Niger State has been sealed. Their illicit commercialized was uncovered pursuing accusation and discrete probe that led to their arrest”.

She said NAFDAC maintains zero tolerance presumption connected substandard and falsified medicine. Also, crave the concern of each good meaning Nigerians and lovers of humanity successful this fight. “If you spot something, delight accidental something. Together, we tin escaped our nine of the menace of substandard and falsified medicine”.