By Oluwatoyin Adegoke
Ogun state government is to conduct compliance exercise on all table and sachet water factories in the state as part of measures to ascertain the causes of the recent cholera outbreak and to forestall re-occurrence.
Commissioner for Environment, Mr Ola Oresanya made the announcement during a stakeholders meeting in Abeokuta.
Mr Oresanya said the compliance exercise became necessary to address the environmental and hygienic negligence detected in the production processes which was in variance to their earlier certification by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.
The Commissioner noted that the compliance exercise was meant to reinforce and domesticate NAFDAC certification in all the twenty local government areas of the state, as the team would move to all water producing factories for on the spot assessment of their production processes.
He called on the sachet water producers to support the compliance exercise as the state government was not out to witch hunt anyone, but safeguard the health of the residents from preventable water borne diseases as well set a healthy standard .
Responding, the Chairman of the Table Water And Beverages Producers Association of Nigeria, Ogun State Chapter, Mr Femi Olukoga pledged his members’ support for the exercise.
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