The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has issued a stern warning against importation of syringes from foreign countries.
According to a statement signed by NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, Mojisola stated that the act has the tendency to kill local pharmaceutical industries.
Advising the members of the new executive of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, who were on a courtesy visit to her office in Lagos,she charged them to think more of the interest of the country above personal interests as a clearing agents in the nation’s ports.
She also enjoined the agents to join forces with NAFDAC to end the rejection of Nigerian food exported to the European Union, United States and other western countries.