NAFDAC destroys fake, expired drugs worth N50m

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Friday destroyed expired and fake drugs worth N50 million in Sokoto State.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the items were burnt at Kwannawa dump site near the old Post Office in Dange-Shuni Local Government Area of the state.

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NAFDAC State Coordinator, Mr Adamu Garba, said the exercise was part of routine efforts by the agency to sanitise the country of counterfeits, expired and other unregulated products from circulation.

Garba described fake, expired drugs and consumables as the gravest danger to human life.

“The products being destroyed today are made up of fake/counterfeit drugs, substandard and expired food products, cosmetics and regulated products seized by NAFDAC while some were surrendered voluntarily by shop owners.

“This exercise is in public-private partnership with drugs sellers, union members as about 80 per cent of destroyed products were voluntarily surrendered by them,” Garba said.