NAFDAC seizes unregistered meals merchandise price over N3.8 billion in Lagos
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized unregistered meals merchandise price over N3.8 billion throughout a raid on a warehouse in Apongbon Oke Arin Market, Lagos.
The operation, performed by NAFDAC’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, adopted a tip-off concerning the sale of unregistered objects on the facility.
Various merchandise price N3,818,802,720 had been confiscated, and the warehouse has been positioned on maintain pending additional investigation.
Warehouse underneath investigation
In an announcement on its official X deal with on Tuesday, NAFDAC introduced “The warehouse administration has been summoned for questioning, and applicable sanctions will comply with after investigations.
“We reaffirm our commitment to protecting public health and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.”
The company additional urged Nigerians to stay vigilant through the festive season and report any suspicious actions to the closest NAFDAC workplace.
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Nairametrics not too long ago reported that NAFDAC shut down eight rice outlets and a warehouse in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
- The operation, which the company prolonged to Wuse and Garki markets in Abuja, additionally led to the seizure of over 1,600 baggage of counterfeit rice valued at roughly ₦5 billion.
- Mr. Kenneth Azikiwe, Director of the FCT Directorate of NAFDAC, mentioned not too long ago that the NAFDAC D-G additionally ordered company enforcement actions towards these rebranding different individuals’s merchandise.
“This act of counterfeiting rice is illegal. Consumers believe they are buying quality products, but the quality is often substandard,” he emphasised.
- Also, NAFDAC Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye had issued a directive earlier that solely protected, high quality, and healthful meals merchandise ought to be obtainable to Nigerians through the yuletide and past.
- She particularly instructed that these counterfeiting well-liked manufacturers ought to be arrested and their merchandise faraway from the market.
- Following surveillance actions, NAFDAC uncovered amenities the place a girl specialised in repackaging well-liked rice manufacturers akin to Bull 25kg, Stallion Rice 10kg, and Tomatoes Rice 25kg, amongst others. The operation was carried out in a warehouse behind her residential home, which is completed solely at evening.
- The company additionally destroyed unhealthy merchandise valued at roughly N11 billion in Ibadan. The Directorate is tasked with figuring out and eradicating unwholesome, substandard, pretend, and counterfeit merchandise from circulation.
Adeyeye has emphasised that the company’s major aim is to eradicate such merchandise to guard public well being.
She additionally referred to as for the necessity to proceed collaboration and partnership with stakeholders to guard Nigeria from unwholesome, substandard, pretend, and counterfeit medicinal and controlled merchandise.
