NAFDAC destroys adulterated foods and drugs in the South-East

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed that it has destroyed fake, adulterated and unregistered food, drug and cosmetic products worth about N2.7 billion seized in the South-East.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Mojisola Adeyeye, in a brief remark during the exercise in Enugu stated that the products would have compromised the health of over three million people.

Represented by a Director of the South-East Zone, Martins Iluyomade, the DG lamented that the products would have increased the health burden on the already overstretched health institutions in the country, while also stressing that the products would have increased the poverty rate by making people spend money they should use to improve their livelihoods on medical trips.

The DG expressed concerns that several people have met their untimely death due to the consumption of poisons, stressing that the event was to signal to the people of the South-East that it is no longer business as usual to merchants of death, who are hell bent on destroying other people for their own selfish economic gain.