NAFDAC intensifies enforcement against sachet alcohol, sub-200ml PET bottles

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has begun a nationwide enforcement cognition to region alcoholic beverages packaged successful sachets and PET bottles beneath 200ml from circulation successful enactment with the Federal Government’s prohibition connected the products.

The bureau disclosed successful a connection that the workout is being carried retired crossed the six geopolitical zones arsenic portion of efforts to enforce the prohibition connected the production, importation, distribution, merchantability and usage of alcoholic drinks packaged successful sachets and PET bottles beneath 200ml.

According to NAFDAC, the cognition follows the closure of manufacturing facilities that failed to comply with the directive and forms portion of its ongoing efforts to support nationalist health.

“NAFDAC enforcement teams are conducting coordinated operations successful markets, centrifugal parks, retail outlets, bars, and different organisation channels to identify, seize, and region banned products from circulation,” the connection said.

NAFDAC advised manufacturers, importers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, transporters and different stakeholders to instantly surrender immoderate remaining banal of the affected products.

The bureau warned that continued possession oregon merchantability of the banned alcoholic beverages amounts to a usurpation of the instrumentality and could pull seizure, regulatory sanctions ...