Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

UNLICENSED drug dealers are flooding the market with a variety of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that could do more harm than good, the country's medicines regulatory body has warned. The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said this week that individual drug importers had flooded the local market with ARVs, which they are selling from unlicensed…

Sierra Leone's Pharmacy Board Friday destroyed over Le 500 million fake and counterfeit drugs. The destruction exercise took place at the Central Medical Stores compound, New England Ville in Freetown. The destruction was aimed at eradicating fake, substandard and counterfeit drugs nationwide. Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas noted that the exercise is another mile…

Director General of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, said yesterday in Akure, Ondo State, that the Agency destroyed counterfeit drugs worth not less than N20 billion in the last six years. Akunyili, in a key note address delivered on her behalf by head of the Ondo State…

A recent report from far away China may have unwittingly demonstrated how pervasive and pernicious the issue of drugs adulteration is around the world and also how different nations have chosen to react to the scourge. According to the report, a Chinese law court had been so disgusted with the illegal, unethical and murderous certification…

THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) yesterday raided supermarkets and food joints in Kogi State, seizing goods worth N2 million. The head of the agency in the state, Mr. John Okori, said that the agency had been innundated with reports of fake and banned products in the state capital and…

The fake cough syrup known as Mist Expectorant Sedative (MES) now in circulation in the local market might have been manufactured by unlicensed backyard factories, the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority has said. TFDA public relations officer Gaudensia Simwanza said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that Afya Laboratories Limited, the company whose batch number appears…

FAKE and counterfeit drugs, foods and beverages worth about N8 million were on Friday destroyed in Umuahia by the Abia state task force on fake/counterfeit drugs and unwholesome processed foods. The Chairman of the Task Force, Dr Lambert Mgbaja, said that the items were seized from the Ariaria International market, Eziukwu Road market as well…

National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), yesterday announced the seizure of six consignments of fake pharmaceutical products valued at N10 million imported through Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja. Addressing newsmen yesterday in Lagos at NAFDAC Office, Oshodi, NAFDAC Director of Inspectorate, Mrs. Chinyere Ukaegbu, said the fake drugs included Visine Eye…

The Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) in the Upper East Region on Thursday, burnt a quantity of confiscated goods estimated at about 112 million Cedis. The items, which included assorted foreign cigarettes, fake and expired pharmaceutical drugs, mosquito coils and Chinese herbal tea, were seized at various entry points in the Region by CEPS…

Expectations that Onitsha drug market closed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) over discovery of fake and counterfeit drugs would be opened soon were dashed yesterday as the agency said it has no plans to open the market soon. Though the NAFDAC Director General, Prof Dora Akunyili had earlier…