{"id":6901,"date":"2014-03-18T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:48:19","slug":"fda-begins-clearing-fake-zentel-off-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"FDA begins clearing fake Zentel off the market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010110112271128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6902\" alt=\"2010110112271128\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010110112271128-300x255.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010110112271128-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010110112271128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has begun removing the fake Zentel dewormers off the market.<\/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>Last week, the FDA warned the public to be on the look-out when purchasing this brand of dewormer.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Public Relations Officer of the Authority, James Lartey advised Ghanaians to report shops that are still keeping the fake Zentel dewormers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you see the product in the shop, don\u2019t buy it, if the people are still keeping it on the shelves, report to the nearest Police Station,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also appealed owners of pharmacy shops to draw the FDA\u2019s attention \u201cif they have stock of the batch number that we have mentioned [390160] with manufacturing date of March 2011 and expiry date is March 2016\u201d and urged them to remove \u201cit from the shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has begun removing the fake Zentel dewormers off the market. Zentel is an over-the-counter drug which is meant for the treatment of single or mixed intestinal parasites. Last week, the FDA warned the public to be on the look-out when purchasing this brand of dewormer. In an interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6902,"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-6901","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\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}