The Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC) has sealed an unlawful beauty manufacturing facility in Agege, Lagos State.
The manufacturing unit, often known as Shine Shine Skincare, was discovered to be producing dangerous bleaching cosmetics disguised as natural and secure merchandise.
The company disclosed the event by means of its official X (previously Twitter) web page, noting that the merchandise have been manufactured below poor Good Manufacturing Apply (GMP) situations.
“NAFDAC has sealed an unlawful beauty manufacturing facility, Shine Shine Skincare, in Agege, Lagos State. The operation uncovered the illicit manufacturing of bleaching cosmetics falsely marketed as “natural” and secure to be used, regardless of being manufactured below poor GMP situations,” the sattemnet learn.
Findings from the operation
Through the raid, NAFDAC officers uncovered a spread of unregistered merchandise being manufactured and packaged for unsuspecting shoppers below the false label of natural skincare. These included:
- Peeling White Scrub
- Glass Scrub Wash
- Antiaging Radiant Glow
- Custom-made Whitening Black Cleaning soap
- 10X Custom-made Native Cleaning soap
- 5D On the spot Whitening Cleaning soap
- Yellow Tone Whitening Physique Cream
- Exfoliation Cleaning soap
- Custom-made Physique Cream
The company famous that these cosmetics, described as bleaching brokers, failed to satisfy regulatory requirements and have been ready in unsafe situations.
NAFDAC emphasised that the ability’s operations poses vital well being dangers to shoppers.
“Investigations revealed that such deceptively formulated merchandise typically include unsafe ranges of banned substances, together with corticosteroid-based bleaching brokers, which may trigger extreme well being dangers equivalent to pores and skin thinning, delayed therapeutic, and elevated vulnerability to damage,” the company acknowledged.
Following the raid, the ability was sealed to forestall additional circulation of the dangerous merchandise.
NAFDAC warns that these unwholesome beauty merchandise pose critical public well being dangers and urges Nigerians to stay vigilant when buying beauty and different regulated merchandise. Investigations into the unlawful outfit are ongoing, and applicable sanctions will comply with.
What you need to know
Final 12 months, the company shut down a counterfeit cosmetics manufacturing unit at Benue Plaza, Commerce Truthful Complicated, Lagos, the place officers seized over 1,200 cartons of unregistered chemical substances, expired merchandise, and faux cosmetics value about N50 million.
- Expired merchandise have been additionally being revalidated on the market, posing critical shopper dangers. Tools together with mini-mixing containers, batch coding supplies, and unlabelled chemical substances was confiscated for additional investigation.
- In one other operation on the Balogun Commerce Truthful Gate throughout the identical complicated, NAFDAC apprehended Mr. Pius Effiong Eyoh, proprietor of Pasco International Restricted.
He was accused of producing, packaging, and promoting counterfeit skincare merchandise, together with Pores and skin Steadiness Excellent Knuckle Natural Peel Remedy and Golden Face Triple Motion Concentrated Excellent Pores and skin. The objects carried misleading French labels and a faux Cameroonian tackle to mislead consumers. His facility was instantly sealed, and the merchandise marked for destruction.
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