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From Tony John, Port Harcourt
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has shot down 10 substandard and unregistered sachet water factories in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in a renewed bid to permanently stamp out illegal production of sachet water.
The operation also led to the arrest of four persons, Levi, Monica, Nduka and Chukwu, as well as impounding of four buses, three sachet water packaging machines, rolls of films and three generator sets used in the business.
Coordinator of NAFDAC in the state, Mrs. Mercy Ndukwe, said the operation was aimed at sanitising the chaotic sachet water business.
She said in as much as NAFDAC encourages small scale producers and entrepreneurship, she could not compromise standards.
She said: “In the course of this operation, we discovered that some licensed sachet waters are no longer being operated by their original owners.
“They have sold off their franchise to someone else who in turn set up a substandard factory without consulting NAFDAC and with absolute disregard to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
“This is a continuous exercise that will be sustained until the sachet water business is sanitised and clandestine producers uprooted.
