Customs Impounds Expired Drugs Container

The Nigerian Customs
Service  last Friday said its has impounded container with expired drugs and hospital equipment.
The fake, expired drugs and hospital equipment have been handed over to the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control NAFDAC.
In a statement by the customs said the Customs Area Controller, PTML Command, Mr Folorunsho Adegoke, stated that the container was shipped from the United States of America to Nigeria earlier in the year.
Adegoke said on routine examination, it was discovered that majority of the drugs intended to be a free gift to Nigeria from a non-governmental organisation   had expired.
He said some had expiry dates as 2010, 2011, 2013 and April 2014 while the fake ones in all sorts of packages had no labels no expiry date at all.
The customs boss said the service had no choice than to seize the container and inform NAFDAC, stressing that apart from the drugs, there were sodium chloride, which expired in 2010, hepatin grainger  Kimberly- Clark Ultra Surgical Gown carton marked B/Braun and a lot of other items in all kind of packages.
He said those that were not labelled made identification almost impossible for the Customs Service.