TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGES
Title
Page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement
iv
Table
of Content vi
CHAPTER ONE
1.1
Introduction 1
1.2
Aims and Objectives of NAFDAC 3
1.3
Functions of NAFDAC 3
CHAPTER TWO
2.0
General Overview of NAFDAC 7
2.0.1Various
Activities Embarked by NAFDAC
To Achieve Her Mandate. 8
2.1
Historical Development of NAFDAC 10
2.2
Food Laws in Nigeria 12
2.2.1The Emergency of
Food Law in Nigeria 14
2.2.2Food and Drug
and 1974 15
2.3
Regulatory Affairs in NAFDAC 16
2.3.1Need for
Regulatory Control 16
2.3.2Development of
Regulatory Control 16
2.3.3Regulatory
Control in Nigeria 17
2.3.4Element of
Regulatory Control 17
2.4
Regulated Products Registration in
Nigeria 18
2.41Registration
of Regulated Products 19
2.4.2
Imported Products 20
2.4.3
Locally Manufactured Products 20
2.4.4
Product Registration Process 21
2.5 Role of Product Regulation in Safeguarding
the life and Health of consumer 22
2.5.1 Objectives
of Product Registration 23
CHAPTER THREE
3.0
The Role of NAFDAC on Food Industry
in Nigeria. 24
3.0.1The role of the
consumer on Regulation 24
3.0.2Responsibility
and Control 25
3.0.3Product Quality
and Manufacture’s Liability 26
3.1
General Procedure for Inspection of
Establishment used by NAFDAC 27
3.2
Regulation of Additives in Food 28
3.2.1Classes of
Additives 29
3.2.2Historical
Background 29
3.2.3Non. Nutritive
Sweetness 31
3.2.4Flour Improvers 32
3.3
Regulation of Packaged water 34
3.3.1Types of Water 35
3.3.2Health and
Environmental Impacts of
Contaminated Water. 36
3.3.3 Regulation
of packaged water 37
3.4
Importance of Food Labels 39
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) 43
4.1
Scope of GMP 44
4.2
The use of Hazard Analysis Critical
Control Point (HACCP) in Ensuring Food
Safety by NAFDAC. 47
4.2.1The need for
HACCP 48
4.2.2Advantages of
HACCP System 50
4.2.3Principle of
HACCP 52
4.2.4Application of
HACCP 52
4.3
Compliance
Activities and Sanctions in NAFDAC 53
4.3.1 Voluntary Compliance Policy 53
4.3.2 Mandatory Compliance Policy 54
4.4
Enforcement Activities in NAFDAC 55
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1
Conclusion 57
5.2
Recommendation 58
5.3
References 60
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Concern
about the wholesomeness and safety of our foods has increased dramatically,
particularly in those countries where food shortage is not a problem. Increasing understanding of, and interest in
technological matters on the part of the consumer and organized consumer
groups, coupled with a recognition that neither government nor industry can
guarantee the safety of food, have lent support to this concern. Our food present dilemma is that technology
has opened our eyes of possible dangers of which were once blissfully
ignorant. It has done so on two
fronts. First, it has enabled us to
measure in trace quantities, substances that previously went undetected, and we
have begun to recognize that many of these substances form the natural
background of our food supply. But
perhaps more important, it has increase our awareness of the universe of
possible affliction and their apparent causes.
No longer do we focus our fear on acute, lethal effects. We now worry about the insidious chronic
effects which rub us our health and diminish the quality of our lives.
Various
forms of adulteration exists in food trade.
For example, textured vegetable protein may be substituted for meat, or
bean flour may be adulterated with other cheaper flour. In certain instances more costly vegetable
oils have been diluted with cheaper ones or with non – edible oils resulting in
cases of food poisoning with lethal consequences. Such practices must be curbed and any control
measures on food should prohibit and penalize any such acts. Hence, the need for a food regulatory body.
Regulatory
aspect of food is, in the main, an attempt to protect the health and pocket of
the consumer, and to simplify trade at both the domestic and international
levels. The policy designed for a food,
invariably is derived from the various quality control measures which are
exercised in the production, sale or importation of food. In other to achieve this, food laws must be
enacted that will make provision for the legislating on the presence of
poisonous materials in food, prohibit adulteration in any form and disallow the
advertisement of misleading claims. It
must also permit compositional, hygienic and labeling requirements to be stipulated,
and the presence and amount of additives to be controlled. Provision must also be made to check dumping
and for relevant regulation to he made.
The penalties for infringement must be spelt out and these should be
sufficiently stringent so as to be an effective deterrent.
1.2 AIMS
AND OBJECTIVES OF THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR
FOOD AND DRUGS ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL
In
a country like ours, which wants to stop the dumping of counterfeit and
substandard products to avoid the purchase and consumption of unwholesome
regulated products, it is necessary to regulate such products. NATIONAL AGENCY FOR FOOD AND DRUGS
ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL (NAFDAC) is therefore, saddled with the
responsibility of safeguarding the health of Nigerians through the fight
against the manufacture, important, distribution and sale of substandard drug
and unwholesome food products in Nigeria.
Therefore,
the objective of NAFDAC is the promotion and protection of the health of the
Nigerian consumers as well as ensuring rational and fair practices in commerce in
the materials covered by the decree through which they are established.
1.3 GENERAL
FUNCTIONS OF THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR
FOOD AND DRUGS ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL
According
to (Section 5 of Decree No. 15 of 1993) the agency have the following
functions:
a.
Regulate and control the importation,
exportation, manufacture, advertisement, distribution, sale and use of food,
drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, bottled water and chemicals.
b.
Conduct appropriate tests and ensure
compliance with standard specifications designed and approved by the council
for effective control of quality of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical, devices,
bottled water and chemicals and their raw materials as well as their production
processes in factories and other establishment.
c.
Undertake appropriate investigations
into the production premises and raw materials for food, drugs, cosmetics,
medical devices, bottled water and chemicals and establish relevant quality
assurance system, including certification of production sites and of the
regulated products.
d.
Undertake the inspection of imported
foods, bottled water and chemicals and establish relevant quality assurance
systems, including certification of the production sites and of the regulated
products.
e.
Compile standard specification and guide
lines for the production, importation, exportation, sale and distribution of
food, drugs, cosmetics, bottled water and chemicals.
f.
Undertake the registration of food,
drugs, cosmetics, bottled water and chemicals.
g.
Control the exportation and issue
quality certification of food, drugs, cosmetics, bottled water and chemicals
intended for export.
h.
Establish maintain relevant laboratories
or other institutions in strategic areas of Nigeria as may be necessary for the
performance of its functions.
i.
Pronounce of the quality and safety of
food drugs, cosmetics, bottled water and chemicals after appropriate analysis.
j.
Undertake measures to ensure that the
use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances are limited to medical and
scientific purposes.
k.
Advice federal, state and Local
Governments, the private sectors and other interested bodies regarding the
quality, safety and regulatory provisions on food, drug, cosmetics, bottled
water and chemicals.
l.
Undertake and Co-ordinate research
programmes on the storage, adulteration, distribution and rational use of food,
drugs, cosmetics, bottled water and chemicals.
m.
Issue guidelines on, approve and monitor
the advertisement of food, drugs, cosmetics, bottled water and chemicals.
n.
Compile and publish relevant data
resulting from the performance of the functions of the Agency under this Decree
or from other sources.
o.
Sponsor such national and international
conferences as it may consider appropriate.
p.
Liaise with relevant establishment
within the outside Nigeria
in pursuance of the functions of the agency, and.
q.
Carry out such activities as are
necessary or expedient for the performance off its functions under this Decree.
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