The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has impounded confectionery valued at N2.5m at the Ogbaru Relief Market, Onitsha, Anambra State.
NAFDAC operatives, who visited the market on Tuesday,
also closed down 12 shops filled with confectionery, including milk candies for children.
The Public Relations Officer for the agency, Mr. Anslem Okonkwor, said the impounded confectionery was substandard and not certified by NAFDAC.
He said, “The raid came as a result of complaints made to us that people were bringing into the market confectionery, which NAFDAC had not approved for human consumption.”
A Chief Regulatory Officer of NAFDAC, Mr. Joseph Idowu, said the agency found it difficult to make the traders to cooperate.
He said, “We were unable to arrest even one of the culprits to serve as a deterrent to others due to the posture of the market leadership.
“One of them called the four fake product dealers that were reported to us, and asked them to escape before we got to them.”
He said the uncooperative attitude of the confectionery market leaders was unlike the one NAFDAC had been getting from other market leaders, who sanitised the market by themselves.
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