The National Agency
for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Monday, sealed 15
drug stores in Calabar for selling counterfeit, expired, and banned
drugs.
The closure was effected in a surprise raid by a team led by Abisola Adekoya, the agency’s deputy director of Ports Inspection.
Mrs. Adekoya said
she raised six groups to carry out checks against non compliance with
NAFDAC requirements in patent medicine stores and pharmacies in the
city.
She said NAFDAC had
invested some millions of naira to buy anti-counterfeiting devices like
the Truscan machine, to detect fake drugs.
“With the aid of
this newest technology, we were able to detect fake drugs, including
those that were banned and this has led to the sealing of the 15 shops
in Calabar,” Mrs. Adekoya said.
