Expired products: NAFDAC shuts Chinese supermarket in Abuja

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Published By: Paul Dada

By Paul Dada

For allegedly selling expired products, a Chinese Supermarket in Abuja, has been shut  by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) .

NAFDAC said in a statement on Tuesday that the outlet located at Azba Mall, 2 Durban Street, Wuse 2 labelled the products exclusively in Chinese without the required English translations. The agency said the Chinese nationals running it claimed they were in the process of obtaining a NAFDAC license and translating product labels into English. in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Speaking on the development, NAFDAC’s Director of Investigation and Enforcement of the NDLEA, Shaba Mohammed, said, “Selling products labeled in foreign languages without English translation is a clear violation of our laws. If a product is labeled in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, or Hindi, it must have an English translation. More than 90 per cent of the products we found were labeled in Chinese.

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“Some of the products are expired and still being sold.

“Even if the supermarket had a Global Listing permit, the products should have been labeled in English. They have not provided any NAFDAC documents for these items. This is unacceptable, which is why we had to seal the supermarket

“You cannot operate in Nigeria and disregard our laws. This is a country, and we have rules that must be followed.”