The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed that some of the bread sold in markets is failing laboratory tests because producers are using saccharine in place of sugar to produce bread due to high cost of sugar in the market.
NAFDAC warned water producers, patent medicine dealers and other manufacturers of regulated products against selling fake and substandard products.
Mrs Roseline Ajayi, NAFDAC Southwest Coordinator, gave the warning during a stakeholders engagement meeting organised by the agency, on Friday, in Ibadan.
Ajayi said that the report gathered by the agency during its recent operation revealed that some patent medicine dealers were selling restricted drugs and unregistered products.
She said some manufacturers also failed to comply with the required packaging and storage standards.
“Recently, we observed that bread sold in the markets is failing laboratory tests because producers are using saccharine due to the high cost of sugar.