Section 8: Declaration by manufacturer

(1) The Minister or any person authorised by him in that behalf may order the manufacture of any article of food, drug, cosmetic or device to furnish a declaration in the prescribed form that the article in question was manufactured in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations, and it shall be the duty of the manufacturer to comply with the requirements of the order.
(2) Except as provided by the regulations, no article of food, drug, cosmetic or device shall be imported or otherwise brought into Nigeria unless-
(a) it is accompanied by a certificate from the manufacturer to the effect that it was manufactured in accordance with any existing standard or code of practice pertaining to such product or, where such standard or code of practice does not exist for the particular product, in accordance with any international standard laid down, in the case of food, under the directive of the Codex Alimentarius Commission; and
(b) a certificate issued by or on behalf of the Government of the country where it was manufactured to the effect that its sale in that country would not constitute a contravention of the law of that country.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, the Minister may by regulations provide that any such article as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section shall be imported into Nigeria unless it was manufactured in accordance with any standards that may be specified in the regulations.