NAFDAC Shuts 10 Water Firms In Rivers

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Wednesday shut down 10 satchet water manufacturing plants in Port Harcourt and environs.

The exercise was carried out by the agency in collaboration with the Association of Table Water Producers (ATWAP).

The Rivers State co-ordinator of the agency, Mr Bolakule Ayinde said that the affected factories failed to comply with the regulations for  the production of satchets water, adding that some of them were operating under unhygienic condition without regard to good manufacturing practices (GMP), while some operated without NAFDAC licence.

Ayinde said that the agency would no longer tolerate the activities of illegal water producers in the state, noting that the agency would continue to partner with the association of table water producers to ensure that the machines of recalcitrant illegal producers were confiscated.

According to him, the agency is determined to bring sanity to the industry.

The coordinator also called on the public to report suspected illegal water producers and other regulated products to NAFDAC.

Chairman of the Association in the state, Engr Alex Erekosima thanked the agency for ensuring that all water producers were members of ATWAP.

He said that ATWAP would collaborate with NAFDAC until sanity was restored in the industry.

L-R: John Bredahl(Project Manager-PCI Africa), Arch. Boma Braide, Dame Aleruchi Cookey-Gam, Administrator, Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority, Engr. Napoleon Ofik, Ryno van Wyk at the Site Handover ceremony, recently.