The Nationwide Company for Meals and Medicine Administration and Management (NAFDAC) has uncovered an unlawful manufacturing of pretend cosmetics on the Balogun Commerce Honest Advanced, Lagos State.
NAFDAC in a put up Monday on its X deal with famous that its Investigation and Enforcement Directorate came upon the amenities and ensured the arrest of the producer, recognized as Pius Eyoh.
Mr Eyoh, the proprietor of Pasco International Restricted, was apprehended for “manufacturing, packaging, distributing, and promoting a spread of substandard and counterfeit beauty merchandise.”
The confiscated gadgets embrace Pores and skin Steadiness Good Knuckle Natural Peel Remedy and Golden Face Triple Motion Concentrated Good Pores and skin.
The way it occurred
In accordance with NAFDAC, Mr Eyoh was caught within the act of processing and packaging these beauty merchandise with false labels bearing French inscriptions and a Cameroonian tackle.
“NAFDAC’s intervention led to the sealing of the unlawful manufacturing premises, Eyoh’s arrest, and the scheduling of his substandard merchandise for destruction,” it famous.
PREMIUM TIMES lately reported that NAFDAC arrested hawkers of aphrodisiac and different illicit medicine in Apapa, Lagos State throughout a focused raid on drug hawkers.
The company seized medicine price N50 million, together with aphrodisiacs, narcotic substances (together with tramadol), antibiotics, and over-the-counter medicines.
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Additionally in February, NAFDAC shut down unregistered bakeries and water factories in Bonny Native Authorities Space of Rivers State.
The operation, which was supported by police officers from Finima and Bonny divisional headquarters, led to the closure of 10 bakeries and eight desk water factories discovered to be producing faux and unwholesome merchandise.
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