The National Agency for Food,
Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has placed a ban on the sale of
‘sniper’ (insecticide) in open markets and supermarkets.
NAFDAC’s Director, Veterinary
Medicine and Allied Products Directorate, Dr. Bukar Usman, who made this known
on Wednesday at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA),
Ibadan said that the agency had asked agro-dealers to stop the sale of the
product in open markets and supermarkets.
According to him, sniper is an
agro-cultural product meant to be used only in the farms and not for
households.
Usman maintained that the
directive was not an outright ban of the product but a restriction of its use
and availability to farms alone.
He also called on manufacturers
and dealers to cooperate with NAFDAC to mop up the 100ml size of the product
which was cheap and easily acquired, adding that all agro-chemicals meant for
farms should not be used in households.
“There are appropriate products
for the control of mosquitoes and other household pests” he added.
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