Drug abuse: No new registration for alcohol in sachets ― NAFDAC DGTHE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has identified alcohol packaged in sachets as greatly contributing to increasing drug and alcohol abuse in the society. To this end, NAFDAC has said there will be no new registration for alcohol packaged in sachets. Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye announced this at an interactive session with various stakeholders in food and drugs manufacturing, held in Ibadan, on Tuesday. Expressing worry at the increasing spate of drug abuse, she further said the agency would, in the next five years, phase out the use of small pet bottles to package alcohol. She vowed that the agency remained undaunted in its efforts to reduce the incidence of substandard and falsified products as well as the smuggling and abuse of various products.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 12, 2019 18:00 UTC