.NafdacAgency raids ‘Baban Aisha’ local herbal medicine factory, seizes equipment | TheCable
Zaradeen sells Baba Aisha herbal medicine in JabiThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has raided a local herbal medicine factory in the Tarfa LGA, Niger state.exposed how a low-end herbal product — Baban Aisha herbal medicine — is touted to cure common diseases.
Umar Sulaiman, NAFDAC team lead, investigative and enforcement, said the agency carried out the raid in collaboration with its Kaduna office, following a complaint received about the factory.Sulaiman said the team found the production of herbal medicine was being done with an expired licence, violating good manufacturing practices .
“We are all here for one purpose and that is to safeguard the health of the nation. Upon our arrival here, we found a lot of violations of good manufacturing practices , the production of herbal medicine with an expired licence.“We also witnessed an illegal production of some of the products which have not been registered with NAFDAC, along with poor hygiene practices and that is why we took this step.
“He had gone ahead to produce other products, placing the same approved number for a particular product on other products.”
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