Following the discovery of a cancer causing agent, ethylene oxide, in Indomie noodles and its recall by Taiwan and Malaysian authorities, the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has commenced investigation on the product.
It said it would carry out random sampling to that effect.
NAFDAC director, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made this known in a statement, stating that the director of the Food Lab Services Directorate had been engaged and has started working on the methodology for the analysis.
“Indomie noodles have been banned from being imported into the country for many years. It is one of the foods on the government prohibition list. It is not allowed in Nigeria, and therefore not registered by NAFDAC.
“What we are doing is an extra caution to ensure that the product is not smuggled in, and if so, our post-marketing surveillance would detect it. We also want to be sure that the spices used for the Indomie and other noodles in Nigeria are tested.
“That is what NAFDAC Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FSAN, and Post Marketing Surveillance, PMS, are doing this week at the production facilities and in the market, respectively.”
She said the outcome of the investigation being carried out would be made public.
