The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a sachet water production factory in the Owerri West council area of
NAFDAC’s Chief Laboratory Technologist, Usman Ameh led a team of NAFDAC officials from the Agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Department in Apapa, Lagos, to seal the factory, on Friday.Ameh said the agency found that the sealed factory was packaging water directly from boreholes without any form of treatment for the public, thus constituting water poisoning and contravening various production laws.
“A team of NAFDAC officials from the state came here and instructed the authorities of this factory to put every production process on hold but they still continued their illegal activities “, he said. He said NAFDAC would not relent in its mandate of safeguarding the health of the nation and ensuring that only registered wholesome water and other regulated products are produced and sold to the public.
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