The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in collaboration with Covenant Capital, an advisory unit of Covenant Christian Centre, is sensitising SMEs on the need for product registration. To this end, an outreach was held in Lagos last week to bring the regulatory processes closer to the regulated sector and to encourage the registration of small and medium scale products for the growth of local industries in the country. “Effective regulation is key to ensuring quality and safety of regulated products.
NAFDAC is relentlessly working with all relevant stakeholders to ensure that all NAFDAC registered products, irrespective of their origin are of good quality, wholesome, safe and efficacious,” said Monica Hemben Eimunjeze, director, registration and regulatory affairs, NAFDAC. According to Eimunjeze, the seminar has served as an opportunity to have an active engagement and advice on documentation, labelling and other requirements to facilitate registration of products. Speaking earlier at the event, Poju Oyemade, senior pastor, Covenant Christian Centre, said, “Covenant Christian Centre, through its advisory unit Covenant Capital, is collaborating for the purpose of bridging the knowledge gap among SMEs regarding proper registration of food, drugs related products in Nigeria. We believe this is a major step to reducing economic wastage that comes from counterfeit and harmful products, thereby unlocking greater growth in the nation.”
“This event has given specific highlight to food registration, drug regulation and advertisement of regulated products. It is my hope that this outreach will heighten the awareness of participant and enhance the access to SMEs registration of food and drug related products,” Also speaking, Chris Ofuani, deputy director in charge of imported food, products and packaged water, NAFDAC, said special waivers are given to SMEs for registration of their products in the country. Ofuani also pointed out that Nigeria registration traffics for locally manufactured products remain one the lowest in the world.
