The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday said it seized fake goods worth millions of naira during a raid on major  markets in Ilorin.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the goods seized included, adulterated Green peas, Dettol soap, Dettol disinfectant, Jik bleach, Sphagetti among others.

The fake goods were seized at Oja Tuntun, Yoruba Road and Oja Oba markets, respectively.

The state Coordinator of the agency, Mrs Phebean Odu, told NAN that the agency's store was full of adulterated goods, including edibles seized from the various markets.

She called on manufacturers of products to partner with the agency to ensure that products faking become a thing of the past and the culprits brought the book.

Odu told NAN that the raid would be a continuous exercise and called on members of the public to help the agency with information to aid its work of safeguarding the health of the nation.

The coordinator expressed regrets that many innocent people had died or hospitalised because of substandard products.

She said that the agency would step up effort to get to the root of all the substandard products seized from the markets.

(NAN)