‘Bleaching creams can cause cancer, destroy organs’ – NAFDAC

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, has warned Nigerians against the consistent use of skin-lightening creams.

She noted that using bleaching creams poses a great danger to human health. She stated this while speaking at the Media Sensitisation Workshop on the Dangers of Bleaching Creams and Regulatory Control organised for the Association of Nigerian Health Journalists in Ibadan on Friday, March 3, 2023.

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According to her, the negative side of bleaching creams includes skin irritation, cancer, allergy, damage to vital organs of the body, skin burns and rashes, premature ageing, wrinkles, and prolonged healing of wounds.

As reported by The Punch, she further noted that NAFDAC had organised the sensitisation workshop for the health journalists in different parts of Nigeria, in which the South-West edition in Ibadan was the fourth in Nigeria.

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Her words in part,

“NAFDAC will continue to recognise the partnership, involvement and important roles of journalists in taking the message of the dangers in the continuous use of bleaching creams to the grassroots through their various platforms

“We discovered that many operators of the Spas lack knowledge that mixing up different ingredients, either organic or inorganic to form cosmetics can result in a bad effect on the users.

“Nigerian should always know that black is beautiful and they do not need to bleach their skin to please anyone.”