Nigeria's Food And Drug Regulatory Agency, NAFDAC Begins Testing Of Paracetamol Samples After Fake Tablets Report
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) has begun surveying and testing of paracetamol tablets in the Nigerian market. This comes after a report published in the journal Communication in Physical Sciences, saying that samples from five different paracetamol brands, each claiming to contain 500mg, were tested and analysed using the spectrophotometric method, on the 2023 study titled ‘Comparative Analysis of Five Different Brands of Paracetamol Sold in Nigeria with British Pharmacopoeia Standards’.