CPC To Join Hands With NAFDAC Against Adulteration Of Food And Drugs
The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) is set to collaborate with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), to fight against counterfeit and adulterated products in the country.
According to a statement by CPC on Sunday in Abuja, its Director-General, Babatunde Irukera, said this when he led a team on a visit to NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye.
The statement further said that both DGs discussed mutual collaboration as a way of making more impact in the food and drugs sector.
They underscored the urgent need for broad, focused and strategic intervention in the problem of adulteration and counterfeiting.
They were said to have agreed that the problem was a major threat to the key mandate of both organisations because substandard goods violated statutory standards, endangered lives and eroded consumer confidence.
The meeting further identified other opportunities for cooperation and agreed that follow-up meetings and a structure for joint project execution was in the best interest of consumers, the statement said.
It also reported Irukera as saying that the cooperative regulatory approach Adeyeye had adopted and endorsed exemplified the best possible strategy to secure the nation’s food and drug sector.
He expressed confidence that resolutions reached at the meeting would go a long way to address questions of quality and standards in the industry, which would be beneficial to consumers.
