The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has confirmed that preliminary investigation has started over claims that a certain brand of Garri is big imported into the country from India.
Over the course of the past weekend, several pictures of a packaged garri brand circulated the social media space accompanied by captions that the product was allegedly being produced and imported into the country from far India.
According to NAFDAC the food sample and the imported Garri samples has no approved NAFDAC number.
This is the tweet that first caught our attention on Sunday 19th February 2017. It is about a certain pack of Imported Garri with the source given as India, which was found on the shelve of a Nigerian supermarket.
We knew we had work to do, and Monday 20th we did. Our actions and findings are outlined below: (Updates via @NafdacNigeria) -NAFDAC Officers visited the Supermarket in Ikoyi today -26 packets of 500mg each of the products were seized for analysis -The product has no NAFDAC number –
The product is said to be from Ghana but packaged in UK -The Management of the Supermarket have been invited for further discussion in our Lagos office Investigation continues.
Importing gaari. Is this how lazy and bad we’ve become?, this calls for rethink.