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International Atomic Agency selects NAFDAC as regional centre for food safety

By Joseph Okoghenun
11 February 2015   |   11:00 pm
BARELY few weeks after obtaining ISO/ IEC 17025:2005 accreditations from the US government, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) again hit the international limelight on Tuesday, as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced the selection of   the agency’s food laboratory as Africa Regional Designated Centre (RDC) for Food…

BARELY few weeks after obtaining ISO/ IEC 17025:2005 accreditations from the US government, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) again hit the international limelight on Tuesday, as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced the selection of   the agency’s food laboratory as Africa Regional Designated Centre (RDC) for Food Safety.

  Making the announcement in Lagos during a media briefing on the selection, IAEA expert, Prof. Eric Mitema, stated that the selection has qualified NAFDAC laboratory to be used for capacity building in the West Africa Sub-region. 

 Mitema explained that his team was in Nigeria to undertake the infrastructural, human capacity and laboratory audit of the laboratory for onward report to IAEA. 

 NAFDAC had obtained ISO/IEC 17025:2005U accreditation for its drug laboratory from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and United States Pharmacopeia (USP), fortnight ago, thus making the laboratory the first government medicine laboratory to attain international standards.

 The IAEA selection is fallout of the various international accreditations earlier obtained by NAFDAC, especially from the prestigious American Association of Laboratory Accreditation. 

The IAEA selection of the NAFDAC laboratory is part of   IAEA’s African Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research, Development and Training related to Nuclear Science and Technology (AFRA) mission towards achieving AFRA priority programme areas in human resource development, energy planning and partnership building programme areas.

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