The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has denied reports of banning Indomie instant noodles and has assured consumers that the product is safe for consumption.
Health officials in Malaysia and Taiwan had claimed to detect ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic substance responsible for lymphoid cancer and, breast cancer in the product leading to a series of investigations of Indofoods, manufacturers of the product.
Despite this scare, the Director-General of the health agency, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, has asked consumers not to fret over the South-Asia countries’ preemptive measures.
Adeyeye said Indomie has been on the government prohibition list for many years to encourage local manufacturing.
She also disclosed that the body has countermeasures to prevent the importation of these products from affected nations, explaining that the Taiwan and Malaysia noodles have nothing to do with local production
