NAFDAC to synergize with traders in Rivers State in fight against fake products

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in Rivers State and the Rivers State Traders and Market Women Association is to collaborate to check the incidence of fake and counterfeit products in stores and markets across the State.

This understanding was reached during a courtesy visit by the Market Women Association executives to NAFDAC South South Zonal Office in Port Harcourt.

Zonal Coordinator, Mrs. Chinelo Eje who commended the Association for been responsive said the new cooperation will help the agency in its task of ridding the market of unwholesome product.

Mrs Eje however stressed that the agency has not relented in carrying out its routine inspections across the State.

The President General of the Market Women Association, Mrs Edi Bright pledged the association’s readiness to assist the agency in its task of safeguarding the health of the Nation, by exposing suspected fake and counterfeit food products in the market.

Meanwhile, the South South Zonal Coordinator, National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC Mrs Chinelo Eje says about four Bakeries in Rivers State have recently been shot down due to their non- compliance with lay down guide lines.

Mrs. Eje who made this known in an interview with our correspondent Florence Israel said the agency has never relented in their duties in sanitizing the society.

The NAFDAC boss however called on the public to always patronise registered and hygienic bakeries.