{"id":131289,"date":"2024-09-18T07:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:01:11","slug":"nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Govt seals illegal cosmetics factory in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government, through the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has shut down an illegal factory producing counterfeit cosmetic products at the Trade Fair Complex in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>Revealing this in a post on its X handle on Tuesday, NAFDAC said the factory was shut down after its personnel stormed the location and discovered various unregistered chemicals and packaging materials, along with expired products that were being revalidated for sale.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that during the operation, over 1,200 cartons of fake cosmetic products were seized by NAFDAC.<\/p>\n<p>The items including mini-mixing containers, unlabelled chemicals, batch coding materials, and thinners, were confiscated and moved to the NAFDAC office for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Agency estimates the street value of the confiscated items to be around N50 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNAFDAC urges the public to be cautious when purchasing cosmetic products and report any suspicious activities to the nearest NAFDAC office,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government, through the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has shut down an illegal factory producing counterfeit cosmetic products at the Trade Fair Complex in Lagos State. Revealing this in a post on its X handle on Tuesday, NAFDAC said the factory was shut down after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":131288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[206,254],"class_list":["post-131289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Govt seals illegal cosmetics factory in Lagos - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government, through the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has shut down ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Govt seals illegal cosmetics factory in Lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government, through the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has shut down ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-18T06:57:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-18T08:01:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726633820.197555.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1131\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Govt seals illegal cosmetics factory in Lagos\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-18T06:57:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-18T08:01:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726633820.197555.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lagos\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-govt-seals-illegal-cosmetics-factory-in-lagos\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Govt seals illegal cosmetics factory in Lagos - 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