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A private rice factory in Niger State has been shut down by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control over unhygienic practices.
This was made known by the Director, North-Central Zone of NAFDAC, Shaba Mohammed during a routine inspection of facilities in Niger State.
He said that though the facility was registered with the agency, the production environment was unhygienic and without good manufacturing practices.
Mohammed said, “The rice processing facility has been sealed and given compliance directives for not complying with the instant regulations for which they were given to produce and certification. The place is unhygienic and they are not doing production according to good manufacturing practice.”
He revealed that the agency also discovered that some key workers employed by the company were not knowledgeable in areas of rice production.
The NAFDAC director, however, called on the general public to report anything that could endanger lives to the agency.
Mohammed called on small and medium enterprises to take advantage of the Automated Product Administration and Monitoring System, an e-registration and data capturing system that provides an online electronic medium for application for product registration with NAFDAC, noting that it would ease their interface with the agency.
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