The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has said it busted a fake bottled water syndicate that specialised in producing Eva water at the Pipeline Road axis of Eneka in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The agency stated that the discovery on Friday morning followed a tip-off from some members of the public which its officials speedily acted on.
The NAFDAC Public Relations Officer, South-South Zone, Mr Cyril Monye, who disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Friday, added that the suspects were using a ‘decrepit’ shop camouflaged as a pool house for the production.
The statement partly read, “They pick used Eva plastic bottles which they fill with contaminated water fetched from a paint bucket while using dirty rubber funnel covered with clothing material as a filter.
“The already printed Eva labels were then affixed into the plastic bottles and corked with already fake-fitted Eva cocks. One of the distributors of the adulterated water who identified himself as Chibunna James was arrested as he was loading the product for sale, while the kingpin/producer is at large and efforts are on to track him down.”
The statement further said the fake products of 30 packs were eventually evacuated to the NAFDAC office in Port Harcourt, while the uncorked ones were emptied and the empty bottles evacuated.
