Acting Director General of NAFDAC, Monica Eimunjeze who made the call in Abuja to a sensitization workshop for health journalists on the danger of bleaching creams and regulatory controls in Nigeria, decried the proliferation of skin Bleaching creams and products in the country that has assumed alarming proportion to the detriment of the majority of the unsuspecting Nigerians.
“There are those who are clandestinely in the market in which the agency is yet to effect the regulatory control, and Nigerians must be careful about those creams. We see dangers inherent in using those creams products that are not in our regulatory process, so we are collaborating with health journalists to help us increase awareness of the products that have not gone through the regulatory process on the impact these could have on their health”.
Eimunjeze stated that a lot of creams are produced that many don’t know the formulation knowledge in which the creams were made, adding that such creams are toxic to the body. “This notion comes along with the way people perceive themselves to make them more receivable or acceptable in the society”. She condemned the idea of bleaching totally, adding that there are creams that are approved and formulated with specific the colour one has and that this is more acceptable than bleaching the body.
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