After sampling of paracetamol Drugs, The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed that the news on the under-dosed paracetamol drugs in Nigeria is fake.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye,gave the explanation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.
She said, “There is nothing wrong with our paracetamol. The publication is fake and I’m speaking from the perspective of a professor.
“And when you are doing sampling, you don’t do sampling in one place. We used 36 made RS2 software of mathematical package to know where to go, to know how many samples to take.
“So that statistically when the results come out it can be validated. So they went and took samples from Abuja and Lagos.
“But as a scientists we did the test using international standard not a Nigerian university standard, not a Nigerian standard, not a West African standard.”
She further explained that the agency was building quality culture in the industry and encouraging local production of food and drugs to allow for more jobs and save foreign exchange.
The NAFDAC boss also said that there is no single lab in Nigeria that is better than that of NAFDAC, adding that the agency had been judicious in its financial management.
“That lab where these products were tested this week is a WHO pre-qualified laboratory and we have been working on that for about six years.
“We got that in September 2023, WHO pre-qualified laboratory, only few countries have such attainment or laboratory have such attainment in Africa.”
She also cautioned against playing on the intelligence of the 250 million Nigerians, and urged all Nigerians to use paracetamol.
