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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and
Control, NAFDAC,has sealed the elite confectioneries and multinational food
outlet, Chocolate Royale, for various unethical practices and non-adherent to
good manufacturing and hygienic practices.
The action was as a
result of a tip-off and intelligence report which indicted the company of
illegal importation, storage and use of expired ingredients and food products
for preparing of food and confectioneries served to unsuspecting customers at
Chocolate Royale as well as operating and maintaining illegal cold rooms at
their Managing Director’s residence where large quantities of various expired
and spoilt food ingredients worth millions of naira were uncovered.
The NAFDAC’s action
became necessary following an avalanche of complaints of violation and affront
of the company to the regulatory body’s regulations.
Media reports:
To this end, the agency
has sealed both the Chocolate Royale facilities at Plot 267A, Etim Inyang
Cresent and the Managing Director’s residence on No 1, Karimu Ikotun Street, all
in Victoria Island, Lagos.
Some top officials of the company were equally arrested for interrogation for
wilfully obstructing the NAFDAC operatives in the course of their duties during
the exercises, while others had gone into hiding to avoid been apprehended.
Speaking after the
operation which lasted about nine hours, the Director, Investigation and
Enforcement of the NAFDAC, Mr. Kingsley Ejiofor, said that six persons were
arrested in connection with the incident, adding that they were held for
intentionally obstructing NAFDAC officials while on official duties.
“The suspect will be
interrogated, while the products will be sampled and taken to the laboratory
for analysis, where the labels and contents will be properly analyzed. And at
the end of the day, when the results are out, that will determine the next
action”, Ejiofor said.
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