Dr. Christiana Esenwah, the Deputy Director, NAFDAC Directorate of Investigation and Enforcement, revealed this.
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The warning is in a statement signed by the agency’s director-general, Professor Moji Adeyeye, on Friday in Abuja, following the recall of the drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S.-FDA).
The agency said it had received a series of complaints that some restaurants in Maiduguri, Borno State, are using paracetamol to cook cow tail and legs.
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), made this assertion at the Oladipo Mobolaji Abisogun-Afodu Fourth Annual Lecture in Pharmacy on Thursday in Lagos.
The NAFDAC Spokesperson, Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja while reacting on speculation that GMO products have flooded some markets in Nigeria
Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, its Director (Special Duties), who supervised the destruction of the drugs, in a brief remark shortly before the activity, said that some of them were voluntarily surrendered to the agency by their owners, after realising that they were fake, substandard, unwholesome, or had expired