Ogun State Govt Resumes Verification of Water, Beverage Producing Companies as Cholera Deletes 12 …details

Ogun state Government has started screening companies that manufactures beverages and water as cholera deleted 12 persons.

This Ogun State Government through the Ministry of Environment is disclosed its plan to immediately commence the verification process for the producers of table water and beverages in the state

This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Ola Oresanya, in a statement to the media on Sunday, during a stakeholders meeting with the Table Water and Beverages Producers Association of Nigeria held at the Ministry’s Conference Hall, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

Mr Oresanya confirms the importance of the meeting as it aimed at enabling  the agency to know registered water producers with compliance will to the process of water production.

He also made it clear that it is  necessary to monitor the hygienic process of producing water products and ensure that they meet the required standard for human consumption, to avert health hazards that could affect the lives and well-being of the people.

Hear him, “The state will not tolerate any factory that is not ready to follow the due process of production, because you are registered or enlisted with NAFDAC does not mean that as a state we will not follow up with your production process to ensure that due diligence is done to avert health issues that can affect the lives of people living in the state,” Oresanya noted.

He however stated that the Ministry will be  collaborating with NAFDAC, the Ministries of Health and Industry, Trade, and Investment to ensure compliance with the hygienic process of production while periodic on-the-spot assessments will be done to fish out the bad eggs among the producers.

Mr. Oresanya went further to reveal that sanctions would be made against those non compliant producing companies out.

Speaking on behalf of the producers, Mr Femi Olukoya and Lawan Shobiye assured of the association’s readiness to cooperate and support the state government in ensuring the health and lives of the people are optimally protected in line with the hygienic production process of producing table and sachet water as regulated by NAFDAC and other agencies.

While both made it clear that, the association will not tolerate any atom of non compliance but would report any of its members who are not complying with regulated rules backing the production processes and putting the lives of the people in grave dange as health is very key in the state.

(Punch)