Nigeria: Fake Drugs - Senate, Nafdac Take War to China

15 April 2010

In furtherance of Nigeria's leading role in the global campaign against drug counterfeiting and enhancement of easy access to good quality drugs, a combined team of the Senate Committee on Health and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, respectively led by Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello and Dr. Paul Orhii has concluded a five-day working visit to China.

The working visit which preceded a similar one planned for India was a pragmatic step jointly taken by NAFDAC and the Senate Committee on Health to tackle the hydra-headed problem of influx of fake drugs and unwholesome processed food in which some unscrupulous Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been identified.

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