We did not ban alcohol production above 200ml – NAFDAC
By Omeiza Bilal
The Director General of National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has said it did not ban alcohol above 200ml in a big bottle.
According to the NAFDAC DG, the agency only banned alcohol in containers, sachet or PET bottles less than 200ml.
Adeyeye said the alcoholic content in sachet or Pet bottles less than 200ml is 30%. Beer has 4-8% alcohol.
According to her, the Association of Food, Beverage & Tobacco Employers (AFBTE) and Distillers and Blenders Association of Nigeria (DIBAN) signed an agreement with MOH and NAFDAC and FCCPC in 2018 December that they will phase out production of alcohol in sachet and PET bottles less than 200 ml by January 31, 2024. The agreement document is available.
“A five year phase out notice should be sufficient Where Nigeria was one of the 193 Member States of WHO that reached an historical consensus on a global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol by adopted resolution WHA63.13 at the sixty-third session of the World Health Assembly, held in Geneva in 2010”
She stated that agreement was seven years before her time, an agreement signed by Nigeria with other nations that we will protect youth by making alcohol not easily reachable and accessible
