The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said its investigation revealed that Indomie Noodles implicated in the recalls in Malaysia and Taiwan is not in Nigeria.
The agency, therefore, assured Nigerians that indomie and other noodle brands in the country are safe for consumption.
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The director-general of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this yesterday at the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) House in Lagos during the Quarterly Interactive session between the agency and MAN.
She said, ‘’I love to eat good food, including noodles. But I want to be sure that the food I am eating is not going to make me sick, take medicine. And if I am taking medicine the food that I am eating will not make me add to the medicine that I am taking. Therefore, I take food very, very seriously’’.
Adeyeye emphasised that NAFDAC did not ban importation of Indomie during the recent Taiwan and Malaysia episode where many people died after consuming Indomie Noodle, adding that noodles generally had been banned by the federal government many years before she assumed office as DG NAFDAC in order to protect the local manufacturing sector.