NAFDAC Seizes Banned Alcoholic Drinks, Suspected Fake Products In Lagos Market Raid

The team also uncovered unregistered food products and alcoholic beverages suspected to be counterfeit. NAFDAC officers evacuated the identified items from the market for further investigation.

The operation comes amid a series of enforcement activities by NAFDAC targeting counterfeit food, drugs and alcoholic beverages across Nigeria.

In a report published on October 17, Sahara Reporters reported that NAFDAC destroyed fake drugs, food items and other substandard products worth ₦2.6 billion in Rivers State.

The seized items included pharmaceutical products, chemicals, expired tomato paste, biscuits and other unwholesome goods intercepted at Onne Port.

In another report, NAFDAC uncovered a residential building along 322B Meiran Road , Agbado Oke-Odo, Lagos, where more than 100 sacks of empty liquor bottles were allegedly stockpiled for suspected counterfeit drink production.

An Assistant Director in NAFDAC’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, Kunle Ojo, said the empty bottles could be supplied to counterfeiters for reuse in producing fake alcoholic beverages.

The agency subsequently destroyed the bottles to prevent their use in illegal activities.

NAFDAC has maintained its restriction on the production, importation, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and PET or glass bottles below 200ml.

The latest discovery at Oke-Arin Market adds to the agency’s ongoing efforts to remove prohibited alcoholic beverages and suspected