The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has uncovered a warehouse in Lagos containing potassium bromate tablets and an unregistered imported bread improver.
The Agency has also arrested two people in connection with the importation and distribution of the banned products.
Disclosing this yesterday during a press conference on the arrest of the perpetrators in Lagos, the Acting Director General of NAFDAC, Dr Monica Eimunjeze explained that potassium bromate is a banned flour improver globally as it is a known cancer-causing agent.
Ejimunjeze said the product has been found to cause kidney failure among other ailments.
“Potassium bromate popularly known as tablets in the black economy is always attractive to merchants of death who want to make an outrageous profit at the expense of citizens’ wellbeing. NAFDAC wishes to state that there are recommended healthy flour improvers approved by the Agency.”
She explained that apart from improving the texture of a loaf, it also increases its volume and it is relatively cheap.
Giving into the raid that led to the discovery of the ugly situation, she said: “On 7th December 2022, NAFDAC officers raided a warehouse in the Apongbon area of Lagos Island in Lagos where they found one hundred and fifteen (115) cartons of Potassium bromate tablets. The tablets have a street value of N28, 750,000:00.
