The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control on Monday seized a wide range of substandard and expired drugs at the popular Ogbo-Ogu Market, Bridge Head, Onitsha, in Anambra State.
During the exercise, the operatives of the agency, led by the Director, NAFDAC South East Zone, Dr Martins Iluyomade, confiscated a wide range of adulterated, substandard and expired drugs found at the various shops.
Addressing journalists, Iluyomade said the exercise was in line with the agency’s mandate of eradicating fake, banned and other spurious NAFDAC-regulated products from circulating in Nigeria and to prevent members of the unsuspecting public from falling victim.
He said the agency was working in collaboration with the market task force in the exercise that led to the seizure of the multiple fake and banned products, adding that it was a combined exercise carried out simultaneously across all the South-East states.
Iluyomade, however could not give the estimated value of confiscated products in monetary terms, he said it was an ongoing exercise that could only be determined at the end of it.
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