Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

The Zambia Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority is to spend over K300 million to procure mini drug testing kits. The funds will also be used to deploy Drug Control officers in border areas to avert counterfeit drugs from entering the country. Authority Acting Director Esnart Mwape said the officers will work with Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) officials…

The Standards Organisations of Nigeria (SON) was established by Act No. 56 of 1971, Act CAP 412 of the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Act also has amendments to Act No. 20 of 1976, No. 32 of 1984 and No. 18 of 1990. By Section 1 of Act No. 56 of 1971,…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has urged the judiciary in Nigeria to support the current efforts to rid the country of fake drugs and substandard products by ensuring that the rule of law prevailed in the nation's courts and drug counterfeiters brought to book as their nefarious activities were…

Mauritius is in the midst of a controversy in a medicine-trafficking case after a programme by French Channel 5 was broadcast on MBCTV ten days ago. It was reported that fake medicines produced in Mumbai were packed in the Mauritian Freeport and dispatched to African countries. The arrest of a woman from Seychelles and a…

The Director General of the National Agency for Food Drugs and Administration Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, has enjoined patients to reject taking any drug that had been banned by the agency. She charged consumers to inquire from medical workers the type of drug that was being administered to them and refuse any drug that…

Illegal medicines might be stealing their way onto the South African market while health and Medicines Control Council (MCC) officials try to fast-track monitoring the safety and efficacy of these drugs. The MCC estimated about 30,000 medicines were registered with it, of which only a few were natural or homeopathic remedies, also known as complementary…

The Cape High Court has rejected an application by a local pharmaceuticals company claiming a department of health seizure of medicines at their premises was unlawful. Tokai-based BCC Pharmaceuticals made this claim in an application against the minister of health, the Medicines Control Council and the minister of safety and security. By Fatima Schroeder 25…

THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has closed down two factories in Lagos for producing fake and adulterated drugs and wines. The two factories were located in Ikotun and Allen Avenue areas of Lagos. BY MUDA OYENIRAN14 September 2006 Read the full story at tribune.com.ng.