Mandate NBC to warns consumers on Fanta, Sprite use with Vit.C, Court directs NAFDAC
The Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) has said that the judgement delivered on February 15, 2017 in a suit involving Fijabi Adebo Holdings Limited & Dr. Emmanuel Fijabi Adebo v. Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC) & National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), by the Lagos High Court directed NAFDAC to mandate NBC to include a warning on its bottles of Fanta and Sprite.
The warning is to indicate that its contents cannot be taken with Vitamin C as same become poisonous if taken with Vitamin C. This order was premised on the fact that the products contain the preservative, benzoic acid. NBC has since appealed this order.
In a statement issued Wednesday following some media reports, NBC claimed that “In the subject case which dates back to 2007, the UK authorities confiscated a consignment of our products shipped to that country by the plaintiff because their benzoic acid levels were not within the UK national level, although well within the levels approved by both the national regulators for Nigeria and the international levels set by CODEX, the joint intergovernmental body responsible for harmonizing food standards globally”.
