The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed fake, substandard and counterfeited goods and products in Awka, Anambra State.
The products worth over N4.2 billion was destroyed on Friday at the Aswama Dumpsite at Umuzocha by Anambra State secretariat complex.
Some of the products destroyed includes, antibiotics, anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetic, anti-asthmatic, aphrodisiacs, antimalarial, anti-inflammatory, herbal remedies and psychoactive drugs.
Others which are restricted drugs includes analgin, tramadol(above 100mg), gentamycin 280mg and controlled substances, vaccines, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics, chemicals and unwholesome food, among others.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye who was represented at the event by the Head, Task Force Team of the agency, Francis Ononiwu while speaking to newsmen during the distruction said the act was in line with the agency’s mandate of eradication fake and other spurious NAFDAC regulated products from circulation in Nigeria.
“The products were made up of spurious, counterfeited, substandard and falsified medicinal products, unwholesome processed food products and several other unsafe regulated products seized from various manufacturers, importers and distributors in the combined team of South-East and South-South zones.” He said.