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Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday destroyed expired, substandard and falsified medical products worth over 2.8 billion.

“The estimated street value of the products scheduled for destruction today is N2, 675,896,538.20). While the street value of the banned Tramadol is N283,500,000.00.She explained that the Agency has prosecuted some importers who did not mean well for the country. “One Mr. Madubuike Chukwunonye who allegedly sold Cough Syrup with Codeine to a BBC undercover agent in April, 2018 was arraigned at the Federal High Court, Lagos. Another Mr. Ebenezer Arimiwem, was convicted of the manufacture, distribution, packaging, labelling and processing of different brands of Counterfeit Cosmetic Products and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison without an option of fine.“In 2016, Alh.

 

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