June 24, 2023 9:24 AMThe National Agency of Food and Drug Administration and Control , has sealed off Gentle Hills Limited, a pharmaceutical company, for the alleged production of unregistered cough syrup in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital.
Subsequently, “on the use of regulatory force”, NAFDAC said it discovered that the company’s products either had no registration number or one number was used for several products.“The practice is not in line with NAFDAC Good Manufacturing Practice regulations,” John said. “But we saw some finished products and evidence of production in the factory without evidence of approved registered numbers of the agency.
“All these abnormalities speak volume about the standard of the products manufactured in the company not in line with the GMP regulations.Nnamdi Anyanwu, managing director of the pharmaceutical firm, said his company had NAFDAC approved numbers for the production of some products.