NAFDAC destroys fake, banned products worth N8bn.
The destruction exercise took place on Thursday in Lafia, Nasarawa State, during the agency’s North-Central zonal destruction of regulated products.
[…] The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed banned, fake and adulterated products worth about N8 billion seized during enforcement operations in the North-Central zone.
Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, represented by the Deputy Director in charge of the North-Central zone, Joseph Edor, said most of the destroyed products were banned alcoholic beverages packaged in containers below 200ml.
Adeyeye explained that research had shown that the availability, affordability and portability of such products had made them widely abused and contributed to addiction among Nigerians, particularly youths and underage schoolchildren. She said early exposure to alcohol could affect the brain and other vital organs, including the liver and kidneys, with consequences for children’s learning, productivity and overall health. She said the agency’s ban on the production, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets and PET and glass bottles below 200ml was introduced in response to concerns about abuse, addiction and their adverse health effects. “It was based on these abuses, addiction and adverse effects that the Agency banned the production, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET and glass bottles below 200ml, hence the raid and confiscation from manufacturing outfits, sales outlets, markets and motor parks,” she said.
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