PositiveNaija Public Alert 37: The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is notifying the public of the decision to discontinue the production of penicillin-based products by Miraflash Nigeria Limited.
This decision is taken as a corrective measure and closure of a critical observation made during a GMP inspection conducted in the company by a team of NAFDAC officers in June 2024.
PositiveNaija Public Alert 36: The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is alerting the public on the sale of an unauthorized and unregistered brand of Daratumumab formulation in Nigeria.
An internal investigation conducted by Johnson & Johnson revealed that there are two different packaging designs for their Daratumumab product. One design is intended for the Indian market, while the other is meant for the Arab market.
PositiveNaija Public Alert 35: This is to inform the General Public that the following products are approved for withdrawal, suspension and cancellation by NAFDAC. They are therefore no longer permitted for manufacture, importation, exportation, distribution, advertisement, sale and use within Nigeria.
PositiveNaija Public Alert 34: The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is notifying the public about the sale of confirmed substandard and Falsified ARTEMETRIN DS and as CIPROFIT 500 in Nigeria.
PositiveNaija Public Alert 33: The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a notification to Embassy Pharmaceutical and Chemicals Ltd, Lagos (Holder of Registration Certificate) and Laborate Pharmaceutical India, the manufacturer of Embacef 125 Powder for Oral Suspension, to recall its product following a received complaint reporting the caking of two bottles of the reconstituted suspension after the first day. This complaint was reported at the NAFDAC state office in Ekiti State, Nigeria.
PositiveNaija Public Alert 32: The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) hereby alerts the public about an unregistered Gold Vision Oxytocin injection 10IU with a fake NAFDAC Reg. No. A4-9566. The product is purportedly manufactured by Anhui Hongye Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Fengyang East Road, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, and marketed by Gold Vision Medicals, No.4 Range Avenue, Independence Layout, Enugu, Nigeria.
PositiveNaija Public Alert 31: The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) hereby notifies the public of falsified Type 1 and 2 batches of POSTINOR 2 (Levonorgestrel 0.75mg) product in circulation. A report was received from the Society of Family Health (SFH), the MAH, which confirmed that their company did not import that product batch.