The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Thursday, March 24, destroyed fake and substandard products worth more than N1 billion in Ogun State.
The products destroyed included expired products which were said to have been voluntarily handed over by compliant companies in the country.
Other products destroyed were fake and counterfeit drugs, prohibited substandard and expired food products, cosmetics and other regulated products.
These were impounded by the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of NAFDAC in Lagos State and environs from manufacturers and importers as well as distributors.
The Director, Investigation and Enforcement Directorate,Kingsley Ejiofor, who represented the Acting Director-General of the Agency, Yetunde Oni, decried the activities of drug counterfeiters.
Ejiofor, who addressed newsmen at the Sagamu local government dumpsite in Ogun State, said drug counterfeiting could be regarded as an act of economic sabotage and terrorism against public health.
He called on Nigerians to be vigilant over the drugs, foods and other regulated products that they purchased and tasked members of the public to report suspicious activities within their environment to the nearest NAFDAC office.
