{"id":6424,"date":"2014-03-16T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2014-03-16T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T07:11:32","slug":"buy-drugs-from-licensed-importers-only-fda-to-drug-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=6424","title":{"rendered":"Buy drugs from licensed importers only \u2013 FDA to drug retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FOOD-AND-DRUGS-AUTHORITY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6425\" alt=\"FDA\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FOOD-AND-DRUGS-AUTHORITY-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FOOD-AND-DRUGS-AUTHORITY-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/FOOD-AND-DRUGS-AUTHORITY.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA) is strongly advising all drug retailers in the country to purchase their stock of medicine from only licensed importers.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a detection of a fake brand of the Zentel dewormer on the market on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Zentel is an over-the-counter drug which is meant for the treatment of single or mixed intestinal parasites.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times, there have been several media reports and warnings from the FDA regarding the influx of fake and unregistered medicines either imported or produced in Ghana on the market.<\/p>\n<p>Some pharmaceutical companies have been ordered to re-export the imported drugs back to the suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA is therefore recommending that select retailers such as pharmacies obtain imitations of several drugs from unqualified agents which are then sold to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the FDA, James Lartey told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the influx of these fake drugs is hazardous to the health of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>He thus advised pharmacies to avoid buying cheap drugs from unknown persons because it is highly probable that \u201cthey may e buying fake products\u201d which make them \u201cequally culpable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA) is strongly advising all drug retailers in the country to purchase their stock of medicine from only licensed importers. This follows a detection of a fake brand of the Zentel dewormer on the market on Friday. Zentel is an over-the-counter drug which is meant for the treatment of single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}