The National Agency for Food, Drug and Control (NAFDAC) has banned the sale of "sniper" (insecticide) in open markets and supermarkets.
Director of NAFDAC, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products, Dr. Bukar Usman, who made it known on Wednesday at the International Tropical Agriculture Institute (IITA), Ibadan said that the agency asked agro-dealers to stop selling the product in open markets and supermarkets.
According to him, the sniper is an agro-cultural product intended to be used only on farms and not for families.
Usman said the directive was not a total ban on the product, but a restriction on its use and availability only for farms.
He also asked manufacturers and dealers to cooperate with NAFDAC to clean the 100-ml size of the product that was cheap and easy to purchase, adding that all agrochemicals intended for farms should not be used in households.
"There are adequate products to control mosquitoes and other domestic pests," he added.
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