Ekiti: SON destroys fake, expired products worth N4.5m

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Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON).

Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Sunday, destroyed N4.5 million worth of fake and expired products in Ekiti for want of quality assurance and other factors.

Among the products burnt were fake and substandard tyres, expired cereals, expired snacks, detergents, soaps, wine, soft drinks and fruit juices.

Also burnt were electric and electronic items such as television sets and cables, as well as substandard LPG cylinders.

The newly appointed SON Coordinator in Ekiti, Mr Ayeni Oyebola, while supervising the exercise in Ado Ekiti, said the items destroyed were seized from distributors and sellers in different parts of the state after they failed quality assurance test.

He said the products were seized after SON staff, in conjunction with security agencies raided more than 100 outlets at one time or the other at different locations…

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