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NAFDAC blacklists 19 Asian
pharmaceutical firms
Onyekachi Eze,
SeniorReporter, Abuja
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration
andControl (NAFDAC), said about 98 per cent of fake drugs imported into
thecountry come from China and India. Consequently, the agency has blacklisted
andbanned 19 pharmaceutical companies in the two Asian countries from
exportingdrugs to Nigeria.
Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Dora Akunyili, told
seniorexecutive course participants at the Nigerian Institute for Policy and
StrategicStudies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos that the lucrative nature and relative
low risk,organized crime in many parts of the world, including Nigeria has
shifted fromsmuggling of narcotics and running of weapons to faking and
drugcounterfeiting.
The social problem posed by hard drugs like cocaine
andheroine, Akunyili further stated, cannot be compared with the damage done
byfake drugs �because illicit drugs are taken out of choice by those whocan
afford them while fake drugs are taken by everybody out of necessity andanybody
can thus be a victim�.
The NAFDAC boss attributed the prevailing incidence of
fakeand counterfeit drugs to inadequate legislation, chaotic drug
distributionsystem, insecure and unfriendly regulatory environment, false
declaration by importers,clandestine drug manufacturing and in-fighting among
regulatory agencies at theports of entry.
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