The Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Western Region has seized and destroyed unwholesome drugs and other sub-standard products on the market worth sums of money imported illegally by traders.
The unwholesome items were burnt to ashes at the Sofokrom Final Waste Disposal Site to prevent them from finding their way back to the markets.
The items include emergency contraceptives, canned foods that were bloated, various sexual enhancement drugs and ointments among others and seized from peddlers, shops, traffickers and importers in the region and at the Port.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency, Mr Francis Edem Odum, a Senior Regulatory Officer, Western Regional office of the FDA said that the safe disposal of the items followed a recent post-market surveillance conducted by the FDA.
He expressed concern over the growing incidence of a large number of women peddling pharmaceuticals of dubious origin on the streets and said the FDA would fight that nasty trend ruthlessly and definitely prosecute the perpetrators.
He cautioned the members of the public to be wary of the sale and purchase of expired, fake and unregistered products on the markets and advised them not to be on the lookout for expiry dates only, but should check the state of the product.
“Watch what you are buying like the state or nature of the product, having registration markings like expiry date, best before, manufacturing date, storage condition, uses or indication, not dented, bloated, defaced markings or tampered red date markings such as date with different front size or colour”, he added.
Source: GNA
