‘We’ve Only Received One Application’: NAFDAC Reacts To Claims Of Herbal COVID-19 Remedies
NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye speaks on drug insecurity during an interview on Sunrise Daily on March 3, 2020.The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has reacted to claims of the herbal COVID-19 remedies.
“A claim of a cure must be subjected to clinical evaluation through well-controlled, randomized clinical trials following an approved clinical trial protocol”. The NAFDAC boss says that any claim of a cure must follow an approved clinical trial protocol, and subjected to clinical evaluation through well-controlled, randomized clinical trials.
“The claims have not been evaluated by NAFDAC, this minimum requirement of ‘proof of safety’ is the Agency’s way of encouraging the production of herbal remedies from the country’s rich diversity of plants.
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