The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has begun the destruction of 80 containers filled with expired, counterfeit, unregistered, and banned pharmaceutical and consumer products valued at an estimated N15 billion in Oyo State.
The large-scale operation took place on Thursday at the Moniya Dump Site along Akinyele Road, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Among the goods destroyed were well-known dangerous substances, including Analgin, Cocodamol, Codeine-containing cough syrups, Tramadol, Oxytocin, and various vaccines.
Addressing the gathering, Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, stressed the agency’s commitment to ensuring that all regulated products, ranging from medicines and vaccines to cosmetics and packaged water, meet the highest standards of safety and efficacy.
‘Protecting Nigerians from the dangers posed by fake and expired drugs is at the heart of NAFDAC’s mission. We have stringent licensing and enforcement frameworks to keep harmful products off the shelves and out of people’s homes’, Adeyeye said.
According to her, many of these products had been seized during raids, highlighting the widespread circulation of unsafe medicines.
