The Nigerian Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Thursday placed a ban on the importation of beans across the country.
According to the Acting Director General of the Agency, Yetunde Oni, only beans screened by the Agency will be allowed into the country henceforth.
Oni said this during an Awareness/Sensitization Workshop on Safe and Responsible use of Regulated Agricultural inputs for Stakeholders in the North Central Zone in Minna, the Niger state capital.
According to her: “We must recall that these banned beans produce that have been banned in the European Union are those ones that never passed through NAFDAC.
“All the beans that passed through NAFDAC and issued EU certification of food do not get rejected.
“The ones that have been banned are those ones that never passed through NAFDAC.”
Oni however disclosed that “it is not entirely the function of NAFDAC, but the primary assignment of the Quarantine, which is under the Ministry of Agriculture, to look into beans because it is an agricultural produce”.
On whose purview the produce is regulated, she said: ”Beans is an agricultural produce as opposed to a semi or fully processed regulated product under the purview of NAFDAC and such products are food, drugs, medical devices, chemicals, packaged water and detergents.
“These are the ones that are under our purview.
“But because we have seen that the beans is a raw material into a final product that is regulated by NAFDAC, we are now talking of collaboration with one another so that all relevant stakeholders will join hands towards a common goal of ensuring that only good quality regulated products are available for consumption, for sales, distribution, advertisement, information and importation into the country.”
Oni further stated that the Agency did some analysis on these produce to check the pesticide residents.
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