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June 20, 2019
- NAFDAC has
ordered agro-dealers to withdraw Sniper from open markets and supermarkets, in
a bid to curb the high rate of suicides from the product - The agency pointed out
through NAFDAC’s Director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products
Directorate, Dr. Bukar Usman, yesterday said at
he International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan that the agency has moved to
stop the agro-dealers sale of the product in open markets and supermarkets.
He said
sniper is an agro-cultural product meant for farms, not houses. The order is,
however, only a restriction of the use and availability of Sniper to farms
alone, and not an outright ban of the product
Usman
explained that the agency is not banning the product outrightly but only
reducing its sale or use to farms or for agro-purposes only.
He further
called on the manufacturers and dealers to work with NAFDAC in removing the
100ml size of the product from the market because it is cheap and easily
acquired.
“There are
appropriate products for the control of mosquitoes and other household pests” he
added.
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