The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC), on Friday destroyed fake, counterfeit, substandard, expired and unwholesome regulated products, worth N4,282,302,738, in Awka, the Anambra capital.
Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, Director General (DG), NAFDAC, in her message, said the combined Southeast and Southsouth zonal destruction exercise was made up of spurious, counterfeited. substandard and falsified medicinal products.
Adeyeye said others were unwholesome processed food products, counterfeited and unregistered cosmetics and several other counterfeited unsafe NAFDAC regulated products.
Mr Francis Ononiwu, Director of Investigation and Enforcement, who represented the NAFDAC DG, said the products were seized from various suspects, including manufacturers, importers and distributors in the two zones.
The DG commended companies, market groups and Non Governmental Organisations which complied with regulatory standards and voluntarily handed over banned narcotics, counterfeit and fake products to the agency in the interest of public health.
She said the public destruction of the products would eliminate the risk of their re-introduction into the Nigerian Market, a proof of NAFDAC’s resolve to safeguard the health of the country and ensure that only genuine medicines and wholesome foods were sold in Nigeria.
“The estimated street value of the products destroyed today is worth N4,282.302,738.
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