The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has debunked claims that paracetamol drugs in Nigeria are under-doesd.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
“There is nothing wrong with our paracetamol. The publication is fake and I’m speaking from the perspective of a professor.”
Adeyeye said as a scientist she proved the publication wrong and immediately the agency instructed its staff to do sampling.
“And when you are doing sampling, you don’t do sampling in one place. We used 36 made RS2 software of mathematical packages 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 scientists we did the test using an international standard not a Nigerian university standard, not a Nigerian standard, not a West African standard.”
NAFDAC boss stressed 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.”
