NAFDAC Seals Chinese Supermarkets, Cosmetics Shops In Abuja

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has closed down 2 Chinese supermarkets successful the Jabi District of Abuja.

The bureau besides unopen down 8 cosmetics shops astatine Wuse Market for violating regulations governing the sale, distribution, and labelling of products successful Nigeria.

In a connection issued connected Friday by its Deputy Director of Public Relations, Adegboyega Osiyemi, NAFDAC said the cognition followed a directive from its Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye.

It stated that the enforcement squad confiscated and evacuated unwholesome products valued astatine implicit ₦170 million.

NAFDAC further explained that the supermarkets, located connected Mike Akhigbe Way and Ebitu Ukiwe Street, were sealed aft credible user complaints and surveillance revealed they were selling unregistered nutrient items labelled exclusively successful Chinese, contrary to Nigeria’s labelling policy, which requires English translations.

Despite archetypal denials, NAFDAC’s spokesperson said officials confirmed that 1 of the outlets was afloat operational and stocked with unregistered goods.

Similarly, 8 cosmetics shops successful Wuse Market were sealed for selling banned, expired, and unregistered products, including aphrodisiacs and aesthetic medicines.

Investigations showed that immoderate traders had been illegally posing arsenic dermatologists and pharmacists, prescribing harmful products to unsuspecting customers nether the guise of tegument whitening, assemblage enhancement, and intersexual performance.

Among the confiscated items were tegument whitening gummies, aphrodisiac capsules, collagen products, herbal medicines, and different unregistered cosmetics linked to terrible wellness risks specified arsenic kidney damage, representation loss, and tegument cancer.

Prof. Adeyeye reaffirmed NAFDAC’s committedness to protecting Nigerians’ wellness from harmful substances and urged consumers to patronise lone products duly registered by the agency.

She besides advised overseas nationals and investors intending to marketplace products successful Nigeria to question due registration and regulatory guidance from NAFDAC offices nationwide.