NAFDAC not out to frustrate small companies, however shield customers – Adeyeye

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, weekend,  assured operators of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that the company is dedicated to creating product registration simpler, sooner and extra reasonably priced.

Adeyeye stated NAFDAC was not established to frustrate small companies however to guard customers and information real producers in direction of producing secure, healthful and high quality merchandise.

She gave the reassurance on the SMEDAN-NAFDAC Summit held in Lagos, the place she acknowledged issues amongst small enterprise operators over registration charges, bureaucratic procedures and delays in acquiring regulatory approval.

She stated MSMEs stay important to Nigeria’s financial development as main employers of labour, custodians of indigenous meals and well being merchandise, and contributors to the nation’s industrial and export ambitions.

She stated the company was repositioning itself as an enabler of business with out compromising its accountability to make sure the security, high quality and efficacy of regulated merchandise.

“The journey from a promising idea in the kitchen, on the farm or in a small factory to a registered, trusted and exportable product is an important one. At NAFDAC, our task is to make that journey short, affordable and predictable, with outcomes that are safe,” she stated.

The NAFDAC boss defined {that a} registration quantity was greater than an identification mark on a product label, describing it as an assurance to customers that the product had undergone regulatory evaluation and met relevant security and high quality necessities.