The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has found greater than 100 sacks of empty alcoholic beverage bottles in a residential constructing in Lagos, suspected to have been stockpiled for the manufacturing of counterfeit drinks.
The bottles have been discovered at 322B Meiran Road, Agbado Oke-Odo, throughout an operation by the company’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate.
NAFDAC stated the recovered bottles have been destroyed to stop their reuse within the manufacturing of faux alcoholic drinks.
In a video launched by the company on Friday, an Assistant Director within the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, Kunle Ojo, stated the operation was launched following credible intelligence about actions on the location.
Ojo defined that the constructing was located in an remoted residential space the place numerous supplies, together with empty bottles of various sizes and types, had been saved underneath tarpaulins.
“On arriving, we saw different kinds of bottles stacked in this place. These are bottles covered with tarpaulins,” he stated.
He famous that a few of the bottles bore the labels of alcoholic beverage manufacturers, including that they have been of various sizes.
According to Ojo, the bottles have been suspected to have been gathered for provide to people concerned within the manufacturing of counterfeit alcoholic drinks.
“What these people are planning to do, or what they do here, is to watch the bottle supply to different suspected counterfeiters to be used for another production,” he stated.
The NAFDAC official criticised using residential buildings for actions suspected to be linked to counterfeit manufacturing, stressing that the company’s intervention was crucial to guard public well being.
“This is a residential area, and this is not acceptable to government. We are here to safeguard the health of the nation,” he stated.
Ojo referred to as on Nigerians to alert the closest NAFDAC workplace every time they discover suspicious actions of their communities, saying public cooperation would assist the company sort out the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit merchandise.
“We are calling on all women in Nigeria, please, when you see something taking place in your area, kindly notify the nearest NAFDAC office so that we can stop this menace, so that we can save our country from all these counterfeiters,” he added.
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