NAFDAC Finds Stores of Fake Antibiotics and Others

On December 23, 2010, officials from the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) closed down a pharmacy in Abeokuta, the largest city and capital of Ogun State in southwest Nigeria, after identifying counterfeit medicines with a handheld machine.

During an unannounced and random check on pharmacies and medicine stores across the state, NAFDAC officials used a portable optical analysis machine to determine drug authenticity. Fake drugs were removed from the stores by the investigators, reported the Nigerian newsite, NEXT.

Ports Inspection Directorate, Momodu-Segiru Momodu said, “Janiez Pharmacy Stores located at Adatan area has been ordered shut, because we found a number of fake and expired drugs there. We have equally asked the owner and the pharmacist in charge of the place to report to our office.”

The seized counterfeits were branded as anti-fungals, anti-malarials, antibiotics, amniopenicillins, among others.