NAFDAC has closed down a bakery for using saccharine and banned bromate in Sokoto

NIGERIA — According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has closed down a bakery for using unfortified sugar and banned bromate in Sokoto. The NAFDAC State Coordinator, Garba Adamu, told NAN on Friday that the bakery was detected during a special raid by agency officials.
“We discovered that the bakery was using saccharine, an unregistered foreign sugar as sweetener along with banned bromate in their productions. “The items were seized for destruction and the bakery is shutdown until it complies with regulations and directives,” he said. Adamu emphasised that only fortified registered sugar containing vitamin ‘A’ with micro nutrients and other vitamins are allowed to be sold and consumed in Nigeria. Source: News Agencies