The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned bakeries across the country against using saccharin and bromate in bread production.
The Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the warning while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
She said bakeries caught in the act would face the full consequences.
“This is where our post marketing surveillance comes in.
”We go out routinely to look for certain products; sometimes it may be due to complaints through our reform office.
“We have closed down a few bakeries because they are using bromate during bread production.
”If we find out, or someone suspected or tasted the bread and it has bromate, we will shut the bakery down.
“We have equally closed down many water producing factories as a result of substandard production or producing it in an unhygienic environment.
“Our Regulatory Inspection Directorate is important to us because it ensures…
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