Fake and adulterated goods

Meaning of Fake and Adulterated Goods

This is a legal term meaning that a food product fails to meet federal or state standards.

It is food that contains poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health.

It is when a product contains some particles, filthy or decomposed substance other than substances which genuinely form part of the original product.

Goods Often Adulterated

Medicine

1. Zantel (worm expeller) tablet
2. Lincocin (an antibiotics) capsules
3. Amalar Coartem
4. Maloxine
5. Ibuprofin
6. Syrups, etc.

Processed Foods

1. Frozen chicken/Turkey
2. Cooking oil
3. Olive oil
4. Canola oil
5. Sunflower oil
6. Soya oil
7. Palm oil
8. Petroleum product
9. Powdered milk
10. Coffee powder
11. Tomato paste
12. Yoghurt milk etc

Clothing Materials

1. Fabric materials

Reasons Why People Fake and Adulterate Goods

1. Greed.
2. Lack of patriotism one’s nation.
3. Lack of moral.
4. Disloyalty to one’s nation.
5. Fake and adulterated goods need no large infrastructures of facilities before producing.
6. Poverty: continued high demand for fake and adulterated goods by customers who have little or no money to purchase genuine product because of its cost.
7. Lack of an official supply chain of genuine goods by the government.
8. Illiteracy on the part of customers.
9. No adequate punishment for offenders.
10. No enough government staff and those dedicated to monitor compliance of law on ban of fake adulterated goods.

How to Stop the Sale of Fake and Adulterated Goods

1. Government must show a lot of will in assisting in the development of technology to manufacture most of the goods imported which are also vulnerable to adulterated and counterfeiting.
2. Regulating agencies like SON, Nigerian Customs service CBN and others working at the ports should close rank to thwart the article of fraudulent Nigerian who import low quality products into the country.
3. These agencies should take further step to weed out officials engaged in compromising in the discharge of their duties.
4. There should be an increase in awareness among consumers on how to identify fake and adulterated products and who and where to report such officials to.
5. Government must allow the multinationals whose products are imported open plants in the country.
6. Government should increase the staff strengths of enforcement agencies.
7. Develop standard and efficient tracking and authentication mechanism to meet up with the new challenges for controlling the menace of product faking and adulterated.
8. We must be patriotic
9. We must show love for others
10. We must know our right as customers

Government Agencies that Fight Production and Distribution of Fake and Adulterated Goods

1. NAFDAC –  National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control
2. MAN – Manufacturers Association of Nigeria
3. NCS – Nigerian Custom Service
4. NDLEA – National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
5. SON – Standard organization of Nigeria
6. CPC – Consumer Protection Council of Nigeria
7. NIPRD – the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development
8. FEPA – The Federal Environmental Protection Agency
9. AFATE – Association of Food Beverages Tobacco Employee of Nigeria

EVALUATION

1. Define fake and adulterated goods.
2. State goods that are often adulterated.
3. What are the reasons why people fake and adulterated goods?
4. What are the steps to take to stop fake and adulterated goods?
5. Name Five agencies responsible for fighting the production of fake and adulterated goods in Nigeria