The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, said it would make use of the policemen posted to it by the Inspector-General of Police to enforce the ban on the sale of substandard alcoholic products in sachets and PET bottles.
The agency added that it would hand over the producers of such products to its enforcement department for prosecution.
The Director of Public Relations of the agency, Abubakar Jimoh, said this in an interview in Abuja.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, had in a statement stated that the agency would no longer register alcohol in sachets, small volume PET and glass bottles below 200 milliliters.
Adeyeye said the registration of new alcoholic drinks in sachet and small volume PET and glass bottles above 30 per cent alcohol by volume had been banned following the recommendation of a high-powered committee of the Federal Ministry of Health NAFDAC and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and Industry in December 2018.
