The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down a private rice factory in Niger State due to unhygienic practices.
This information was disclosed by Shaba Mohammed, Director of the North-Central Zone of NAFDAC, during a routine facility inspection in Niger State.
Although the facility was registered with the agency, Mohammed stated that the production environment failed to meet hygienic standards and good manufacturing practices.
Mohammed said, “The rice processing facility has been sealed and given compliance directives for not complying with the instant regulations for which they were given to produce and certification. The place is unhygienic and they are not doing production according to good manufacturing practice.”
He revealed that the agency also discovered that some key workers employed by the company were not knowledgeable in areas of rice production.
The NAFDAC director, however, called on the general public to report anything that could endanger lives to the agency.
Mohammed called on small and medium enterprises to take advantage of the Automated Product Administration and Monitoring System, an e-registration and data capturing system that provides an online electronic medium for application for product registration with NAFDAC, noting that it would ease their interface with the agency.