Poor funding and low availability of manpower is limiting the potential to curb faux merchandise from spreading across the nation, Moji Adeyeye, director-general of the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC) has mentioned following a public outcry over the excessive fee of counterfeiting.

Adeyeye mentioned the company shouldn’t be absolutely outfitted with the workers that may cowl surveillance nationwide, noting that 95 % of the funding it deploys is internally generated.

“We’ve got solely 2,000 workers for a inhabitants of 215 million. South Korea has 50 million folks and its NAFDAC equal has 3,000 working for it. That can be a part of the issue,” she mentioned reacting to questions throughout an interview on Channels TV on Wednesday.

She mentioned the issues have been tabled earlier than the Nationwide Meeting however substantial outcomes are but to be achieved.

She additionally famous that the company had acquired 40 items of true scan for detecting substandard falsified medicines and revealed the extent of the lively substance within the drugs.

“We’ve got used it for qualitative identification. The quantitative facets wants lots of chemo metrics and our workers are present process the coaching proper now,” she mentioned.

She additional defined that the units are for use on the borders and ports to evaluate medicines.

“The preliminary plan was to buy 72 and distribute two per state and borders however the naira fluctuations affected and we needed to scale back it to 40.

One other downside she highlighted is that Nigeria has many porous borders that aren’t manned. This impacts the standard of merchandise flowing into the nation.

Reacting to how counterfeit producers clone imitations to perfection, she urged the general public to purchase merchandise from credible entrepreneurs and keep away from roaming entrepreneurs.

She mentioned customers may also name 800163322 to verify what they’re shopping for.

“You’ll have anyone on the road that may reply the decision and level you to the correct course. She additionally mentioned customers can scan the bar code on the product that may point out the supply,” she mentioned.