NAFDAC Bans Sniper Insecticide In Open Markets, Supermarkets

As more individuals keep on utilizing mainstream agrarian pesticide, Sniper to end it all in the nation, the National Food, Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has requested agro-sellers to pull back the item from open markets and general stores.

NAFDAC’s Director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products Directorate, Dr. Bukar Usman, uncovered this on Wednesday at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan.

Usman, talking during the dispatch of another herbicide for cassava ranchers, “Life saver”, by UPL, Sprinfield Agro and IITA, said that the organization had asked agro-sellers to stop the clearance of the item in open markets and general stores.

As indicated by him, expert marksman is an agro-social item intended to be utilized uniquely in the homesteads and not for family units.

He encouraged makers and sellers to participate with NAFDAC to clean up the 100ml size of the item which were shabby and effectively gained.

He kept up that the mandate was not a by and large boycott of the item but rather a confinement of its utilization and accessibility to ranches alone, including all agro-synthetics implied for homesteads ought not be utilized in families.

“There are fitting items for the control of mosquitoes and other family unit bugs” he called attention to.