Nigerians panic over ‘epidemic’ of pretend, substandard merchandise

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Ben Ezeamalu

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January 3, 2024 08:43

Substandard and counterfeit drugs concealed in a suitcase seized by officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) at Lagos airport, Nigeria. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP)

Substandard and counterfeit medicine hid in a suitcase seized by officers of the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC) at Lagos airport, Nigeria. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP)

Pretend and substandard merchandise stay a booming enterprise in Nigeria regardless of the efforts of regulatory companies to regulate them.

Nigeria’s regulatory company introduced on 18 December that it had busted a cartel concerned in counterfeiting drinks.

The Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC) mentioned it confiscated hundreds of cartons of wines and spirits from a market in Aba, south-east Nigeria.

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