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Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Federal Government bans the importation and production of Codeine

The Federal Ministry of Health has directed the NAFDAC to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations.



The Minister, Prof. Isaac Adewole also directed the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria and NAFDAC to supervise the recall for labelling an audit training of all codeine-containing syrups in the country, while he has also banned sales of codeine-containing cough syrups without prescription across the country.

Furthermore, these agencies shall work together to increase pharmacovigilance around codeine, tramadol and other related substances.

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