The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned alcoholic beverages produced in sachets less, and PET bottles less than 200ml.

Its director-general, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, while addressing the media over the development in Abuja on Monday, said the ban was not a sudden development but a result of a multilateral Committee that agreed in 2018 for a five-year window to the manufacturers of the products to stop producing the drinks in sachets and pet bottles. 

Given that decision, the DG said NAFDAC did not issue renewal licenses exceeding January 2024 to any manufacturer of the products, and the ban had been in phases whereby production would be reduced by 50 percent by 2020 while the enforcement of the ban commenced on February 1, 2024.