Accra, Dec. 22, – The Food Drugs
Authority (FDA) in collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Department of
the Ghana Police Service on Friday arrested 22 suspected Local Aphrodisiac
manufacturers in Accra and Kumasi.
In Accra the suspects arrested
were 20 males and two females and were picked at around Adabraka Sahara, the
Kwame Nkrumah Circle and in the Accra Central.
Local Aphrodisiacs seized from
the suspects were K. Badu Tonic Capsules and Piles Mixture, Biegya Power, AK 47
Super Sex Medicine, Aduana Garlic Bitters, Tramadol, M2 Premium Peptide Magic
Snow Vita and Super Liquid.
Mr Emmanuel Yaw Kwarteng, Head of
Herbal Department at the FDA, said the effort was part of activities to clamp
down on dealers of unwholesome products to save the lives of consumers.
One of the suspects Samuel Owusu,
a Senior High School graduate from Ejisu in the Ashanti Regional, who sells a
variety of Mouth Wash, narrated how he manufactures his products.
He said: “I buy the original
mouth wash from the Ernest Chemist and buy Hydrogen Peroxide and mixed them
together and dilute with water and put them in the bottles to sell.”
Owusu said he has undergone a
day’s training on how to manufacture the mouth wash and liquid soap and that
was his background and basis for his product manufacturing.
Mr Kwarteng said the operations
were an ongoing process and would be sustained by the FDA and the Police, but
called on the registered herbal companies and the general public to report to
the Authority any suspected medicines on the market.
He said some unapproved medicines
were seized by the Ashanti Regional FDA Office in Kumasi and investigations are
still being conducted by the Authority in the effort to send the culprits to
court.
He said some of these medicines
were concoctions that have no label on them to indicate the kind of ingredients
used in manufacturing them.
The Head of Herbal Department
said many of these medicines were coming into the country through unapproved
roots (foot paths) and the FDA has no control over them.
Mr Kwarteng appealed to the
Herbalist Association to help the cause of the FDA in flushing out the illegal
drugs in the society.
GNA
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