Vitamin C: Court insists NBC must put written warning on Fanta, Sprite
A Lagos High Court has dismissed an application by Nigeria Bottling Company Plc seeking stay of the execution of its earlier judgment ordering National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to mandate it to include on all bottles of Fanta and Sprite soft drinks it manufactured a written warning that the content cannot be taken with Vitamin C. However, the court ordered conditional stay of execution of N2 million cost awarded against NAFDAC, but ordered the agency to pay the money into an interest yielding account in the name of the Chief registrar of the court pending the hearing and the determination of the appeal filed by NAFDAC. The ruling of the Presiding Judge, Justice Adedayo Oyebanji was sequel to an application filed and argued before the court by a Lagos lawyer, T.Report a problem.