The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday announced the withdrawal, suspension, or cancellation of 101 pharmaceutical products, effective immediately.
NAFDAC, which made the announcement through a statement released on the Agency X handle on Tuesday, said affected products “are therefore no longer permitted for manufacture, importation, exportation, distribution, advertisement, sale and use within Nigeria.”
It explained that the list of products can be accessed on the NAFDAC website.
It was gathered that the discontinued products include widely used drugs like Abacavir and Amlodipine.
The list covers hundreds of items across medicines and health products from antimalarials (various artemether/lumefantrine formulations) and cardiovascular drugs (valsartan products) to insulin/growth-hormone injectables (Norditropin), diabetes medicines (Januvia/Janumet), inhalers and eye drops.
