NAFDAC Seals Fort Mart Supermarket

BY DOYIN OJOSIPE

— Feb 5, 2017 6:01 pm | Leave a comment

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed one of the largest Supermarkets in the Karu area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)-
Fort Mart Supermarket and also arrested its Manager, for production of unregistered bread including sale of industrial salt, found to be injurious to health.

 During the exercise, weekend, NAFDAC Coordinator for the FCT, Mrs Clementina Anyakora, disclosed that the supermarket was detected during a routine inspection by a team of inspectors from the agency.

 She further said that the agency had initially closed down the supermarket premises, January, after its management-ignored warnings by the regulating agency to desist from the act and do the appropriate thing“We came on our routine inspection and discovered they have unregistered product. We invited them to the office and they did not come. We repeated a visit early January and saw them still baking and reported to the office and they gave us the directive to place the bakery on hold which we did.  But they removed the hold label and continue to bake and to sell fake bread

  “We don’t know what this bread contains and we want to be sure that there are no harmful substances in the product,” Mrs Anyakora added.

 “Also during our last visit we found out that they have this big bag of industrial salt which they sell and also use in making popcorn which is not supposed to be sold here. The industrial salt is only meant for industrial use because of the ionization”, she said.

 The NAFDAC Coordinator said the act is a serious offence punishable by law and attracts several sanctions as far as NAFDAC Act is concerned.

 She said, “ We are putting the bakery on hold and sealing the entire supermarket until further notice when they must have complied with the requirement of the law because what we are doing is in line with the law.”