INVESTIGATION: Social media, anonymous websites drive Nigeria’s poorly regulated weight-loss injection market
PREMIUM TIMES found that these injectables marketed by these vendors do not appear on the public product registration database of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Right of reply Having linked the websites, payment details and company registration, PREMIUM TIMES contacted Mr Olufuwa via the email and WhatsApp contact provided in the status report by 10 a.
What appeared to be ordinary social media marketing led PREMIUM TIMES into a week-long open-source investigation that uncovered a growing digital marketplace where vendors sold the Mounjaro injections without requesting prescriptions and downplayed or denied their side effects.
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