NAFDAC discovers pretend antibiotics, beauty packaging supplies in Lagos raid

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has uncovered suspected counterfeit drug packaging supplies and unregistered beauty merchandise throughout separate operations in Lagos State.

The company mentioned the discoveries adopted intelligence studies that led its operatives to the Tools and Hardware part of the Trade Fair Complex, the place they recovered supplies suspected to be meant for packaging of pretend medicines.

In movies posted on its official X account on Saturday, NAFDAC displayed packaging supplies bearing the names of Augmentin 625mg and Ampliclox capsules, together with leaflets and different objects related to the antibiotics.

Materials carrying the title Gordon drinks had been additionally discovered on the location.

The company raised considerations over the authenticity of the recovered objects, explaining that they weren’t produced by the unique producers.

It notably identified that the Augmentin packaging differed from the unique design utilized by GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, the pharmaceutical firm related to the product.

NAFDAC described the power as a suspected storage level for counterfeit product packaging, saying the operation was based mostly on credible intelligence.

In one other discovery, the company recovered supplies suspected to be related to the manufacturing and packaging of cosmetics that lacked correct labelling and registration.

Among the objects had been unidentified cleaning soap, empty shampoo tubes, packaging bearing the inscription “Turmeric Vitamin C” and containers labelled for moisturising lotion.

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