The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in Abuja, destroyed counterfeit drugs worth over 80 million naira by setting the drugs ablaze
The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, while noting that support is needed in the areas of surveillance and enforcement, said the agency is working relentlessly to rid the Nigerian market of unsafe and unwholesome products.
Although the circulation of counterfeit drugs is said to have dropped from 19.6% in 2012 to 3.6% in 2015, officials of the agency are promising not to rest until drug counterfeiters are totally defeated.
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This act, the officials noted is to serve as a deterrent to those who carry out the illicit trade of drug counterfeiting.
