The Meals and Medicine Authority (FDA) has intensified its market surveillance efforts, seizing a number of unapproved merchandise circulating within the Ghanaian market.
This motion comes within the wake of the FDA sanctioning over 100 manufacturing firms throughout the nation from January to this point for promoting unapproved merchandise.
Throughout a latest operation with the media, the group lead for Market Surveillance, James Aboakye, urged the general public to be vigilant.
He suggested customers to fastidiously test particulars on merchandise, together with meals, medication, private care gadgets like bathe gels, and others, to make sure they meet FDA requirements.
“We carried out market surveillance actions, and these are a few of the actions we do each day. Primarily based on the intelligence we now have on our schedules, we go to districts in several areas and we conduct the train in several services, pharmacies, marts, retailers, these promoting households, and all that. Supplied that they’re promoting meals which can be regulated by the FDA.”