The country’s prohibition on the importation of Indomie noodles has been reiterated by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
This comes after regulators in Taiwan and Malaysia reported finding ethylene oxide, a carcinogen, in some Indomie noodles.
The Director of Food Lab Services Directorate has been involved and has begun working on the technique for the study, the Director General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said in a statement on Monday, May 1.
The statement read;
” Indomie noodles have been banned from being imported into the country for many years. It is one of the foods on the government prohibition list. It is not allowed in Nigeria, and therefore not registered by NAFDAC.
“What we are doing is an extra caution to ensure that the product is not smuggled in, and if so, our post marketing surveillance would detect it. We also want to be sure that the spices used for the Indomie and other noodles in Nigeria are tested.
“That is what NAFDAC Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FSAN) and Post Marketing Surveillance (PMS) are doing this week at the production facilities and in the market, respectively.”
Adeyeye also assured Nigerians that they will be properly informed of the investigation’s findings.
