NAFDAC courageously confiscates cartons of Crusader soap containing mercury.... but continues to ignore mercury in childhood vaccines!

 

It ought to have been cheering news, the blaring headlines reporting NAFDAC’s seizure of “4,000 cartons of banned Crusader soap containing mercury”. (e.g. Guardian 16^th Sept:

https://guardian.ng/news/nafdac-seizes-4000-cartons-of-banned-crusader-soap-containing-mercury/).

 

Addressing a press briefing at the Agency’s Office Complex in Lagos, DG NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye reported that the “raid which was carried out on August 4, 2023, resulted in the seizure of three trailer-loads of the soap, which amounted to 4,000 cartons by 12 packs by 12-tablet soap.”  The street value of the products is approximately N1 billion.

 

However, this seems to be just a tip of the iceberg.  According to the DG, one particular syndicate alone, using forged customs documents,  had in 2021 alone, imported into the country seven consignments of “not less than three containers with 4,500 cartons of the soap…(which)  have found their way into various supermarkets and cosmetics shops with unsuspecting members of the public patronising them.”

 

As reported by the Guardian, Prof Adeyeye further “noted that mercury is a serious health hazard and can cause damage to the skin, eyes, ears, brain, kidney and the nervous system, adding that the presence of mercury in cosmetics is of global concern because of the established and documented health hazards it poses to human health and to the environment.”

 

Nice job, NAFDAC! Mercury applied externally to the skin, might indeed find its way into the body posing serious health hazard, particularly to babies in the womb.  That is why it remains totally perplexing to see the same NAFDAC not only closing her eye to the continuing administration of mercury-containing vaccines directly into the blood of our babies in Nigeria, but actually DEFENDING it!

 

This is one of the major fall-outs from the 7^th National Conference on Environment and Health last year.  After a widely-publicized initial reaction to some (really inconsequential) inaccuracies in the news reportage on the Communique of that Conference, NAFDAC has kept mute to our subsequent clarification.  While we understand NAFDAC’s difficult position in confronting an issue imposed on Nigeria by powerful globalist forces long before the establishment of that Agency, it is saddening that the media houses that widely carried NAFDAC’s initial rebuttal could not find the courage to ask for her comments on our subsequent clarification.  Even when they know that they and their own family members could very well be the victims of this matter if left unaddressed! 

 

Our Response to NAFDAC’s press release was sent to virtually all the 40 or so media houses that had carried NAFDAC’s release.  Only a few had the courage to even publish it!  You can read that Response on http://blog.lsfnigeria.org/2022/11/response-to-nafdacs-statement-on-use-of-mercury-containing-childhood-vaccines-in-nigeria/   Here’s how it began:

 

Summary: NAFDAC’s current regulations will not permit in a body lotion, the level and form of mercury it claims to be harmless in some vaccines being administered to children.

Copious news reports have brought to our attention a Press Release  issued by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on 24^th October, 2022.  The Release attempts to underplay the indisputable fact that vaccines, in formats long-proscribed in the developed nations, on safety considerations, are still being shipped to Nigeria for use in our children.