Fifteen supermarkets in Minna, the Niger State capital, have been raided with one sealed and confiscating many expired commodities.
An official of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Shaba Mohammed, revealed this on Thursday, saying they discovered violative items which have been evacuated.
“We also discovered unregistered products and others which have expired with the dates changed,” he said.
Mohammed said some of the items included tea, baked beans beverages, and other food consumables.
“There was one particular supermarket with very poor hygiene, poor warehousing to the extent that they were storing some of their products in the toilet.
“We had to evacuate everything and the supermarket was sealed,” he said.
He said the owner of the sealed supermarket and other suspects were invited to Abuja and Kaduna for further investigation.
The director said the products confiscated would be taken to the laboratory for detailed analysis to enable it to prosecute the suspects accordingly.
According to him, the violators would be fined or prosecuted and the products destroyed, to protect public health.
Mohammed advised the public to always read the label on any products they purchased to verify the NAFDAC registration number and expiration date because some of them could be cleaned and reprinted.
