NAFDAC inaugurates Taskforce on fake drugs, unwholesome processed foods in Ebonyi

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has inaugurated the Ebonyi State Taskforce connected “Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods”.

The inauguration, which took spot successful Abakaliki, attracted cardinal stakeholders connected the taskforce, comprising NAFDAC, Ebonyi State Ministry of Health, Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria and the Nigeria Police Force.

Speaking connected behalf of the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Christiana Adeyeye, the NAFDAC Director, South East Zone, Dr. Festus Ukadike gave an overview of the enforcement initiative, arsenic good arsenic its objectives and urged Ebonyi State to instrumentality the pb successful confronting the increasing menace of counterfeit medicines and unsafe packaged foods.

According to her, “enforce standards, coordinate intelligence-driven surveillance, region amerciable products from circulation, and enactment morganatic manufacturers and traders by ensuring that compliant businesses are not undermined by counterfeiters and amerciable operators.”

She disclosed that the taskforce would transportation retired coordinated marketplace inspections and accelerated testing, including transparent reporting to the Chairman Federal Taskforce connected Counterfeit and Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods.

Contributing, the Chairman of the Federal Taskforce, Dr. Martin Iluyomade (FSI)...