Abuja — Through the deployment of technologies as TruScan, Black Eye, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Mini lab and Mobile Authentication Service, and with over 4,608 local and international trainings for its staff between 2009 and April 2013, Nigeria's food and drug regulator, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been able to obtain and destroy drugs and other substandard regulated products worth more than N20 billion within the last five years.
This gain and others achieved so far in the fight to curb and maintain control over drugs, foods and other regulated products consumed in Nigeria could be lost within the next few weeks if the current strike embarked on by the staff of the agency is not resolved.
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