Codeine Banned by The Federal Government

   Professor Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health announced on Tuesday that the Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation of codeine as active pharmaceutical ingredient for cough preparations.



  This is due to the gross abuse of codeine in the country. Instead, cough syrups containing Codeine should be replaced with dextromethorphan which is less addictive according to the Minister.

 The Minister also ordered the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria and NAFDAC to facilitate the recall for labelling and audit trailing of all codeine-containing cough syrups in the country, while he has also banned sales of Codeine-containing cough syrup without prescription across the country.

   He added that NAFDAC in an emergency meeting with the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group were informed of the new embargo on all new applications for registration of codeine-containing cough syrups as well as applications for renewal has been abolished.
   The PCN has been directed to continue enforcement activities at Pharmacies, Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendor’s Shops and outlets throughout the country.

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