TheNational Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC,has sealed the elite confectionaries 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 confectionaries 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.
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 Kotun 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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