According to the agency’s spokesman Anslem Okonkwo, enforcement personnel raided the warehouse located at 30 Iman Dauda Street, Eric Moore, following a tip-off.
He said intelligence report revealed that the company was involved in importation and storage of illegal food products, particularly snacks and cookies commonly consumed by children.
Among the products found in the warehouse belonging to H&H are Mr. Magic Soft Candy, non - dairy creamer, H&H fruit Juice, Cracker soda biscuit, milk chocolate wafer roll, Coklat pasta, sprite candy and Yummy H&H chewing gum.
Others include power milk cookies; mix fruits flavour chewing gum, champion chocolate, Big band, Bufferfly choco, Whistle milk candy strawberry/choco, mini choco bean, spray candy, twins crisp roll, non diary tea creamer, musical bracelet candy, stick candy milky and Centic filled crispy roll.
Choco stick, Nissile green bubble gum, Angry birds bubble gum, Star tattoo bubble gum, Lawane waifer, H&H spray candy, Power chocolate cookies, Exit pepper mint, Lush choco filled choco pop cream, can bubble gum, mini choco bean Marlboro kent, Dat milk chocolate, Cola tablet candy, A-K 47 gum candy, sweet girl chewy candy, musical bracelet candy, fun o and power chocolate cookies.
Similarly, NAFDAC’s Chief Regulatory Officer, Babatunji Omoyeni, disclosed that an estimated 1.5 million cartons of various unregistered products running into millions of naira were uncovered.
NAFDAC also claimed that the Managing Director of the company has been arrested for illegal importation, storage, distribution and non adherence to standard hygienic practices.
Okonkwo who disclosed that only one of the 50 products found in the warehouse was registered, added that the products were stored in unhygienic environment.
He said samples of the 49 unregistered products have been taken for laboratory analysis.
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