Beans, Ogbono, fish among 10 rejected Nigerian goods abroad – NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has listed beans, fish, Ogbono as part of 10 Nigerian goods rejected abroad.
NAFDAC blamed the rejection on non-adherence to standardised by airlines among other stakeholders.
The Deputy Director, Export Division, Ports Inspection Directorate, NAFDAC, Sanwo-Olu O.A. stated this in an address she delivered at the 3rd CHINET Aviacargo conference in Lagos, with the title, “Unlocking the Logistics Barrier to Improving Agro Exports Products.”
She said some of the commonly rejected export food commodities from Nigeria from 2018 till date and in the top 10 are sesame, beans, melon seeds, peanut and smoked fish/fish meal, ginger, spices paper, hibiscus flower, palm oil and ogbono.
She also blamed the rejection on non-adherence to set standard by freight forwarders, cargo handlers, airlines/carriers, regulatory agencies, as well as poor inter-agency collaboration, amongst others.
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