NAFDAC Uncovers Empty Alcohol Bottles Stockpiled For Fake Drink Production

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has discovered more than 100 sacks of empty alcoholic beverage bottles in a residential building in Lagos, suspected to have been stockpiled for the production of counterfeit drinks.
The bottles were found at 322B Meiran Road, Agbado Oke-Odo, during an operation by the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate.
NAFDAC said the recovered bottles were destroyed to prevent their reuse in the production of fake alcoholic beverages.
In a video released by the agency on Friday, an Assistant Director in the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, Kunle Ojo, said the operation was launched following credib...