{"id":694665,"date":"2026-05-26T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694665\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:37:11","slug":"sahpra-shuts-down-illegal-weight-loss-drug-factory-in-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694665\/","title":{"rendered":"SAHPRA shuts down illegal weight-loss drug factory in Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We found the active pharmaceutical ingredients which could not be accounted for,&#8221; says Fafudi.<\/p>\n<p>Several finished semaglutide products, as well as products containing tirzepatide, were also discovered on site.<\/p>\n<p>Fafudi says combinations of tirzepatide and semaglutide are still undergoing clinical trials and have not yet been approved for use.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/sahpra-recalls-contraceptive-tablets-due-quality-issue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SAHPRA recalls contraceptive tablets due to quality issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are schedule four substances which, in the scale at which they are produced, should be registered by SAHPRA,&#8221; says Fafudi.<\/p>\n<p>The plant should also be licensed by SAHPRA for manufacturing, which it is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We found the active pharmaceutical ingredients which could not be accounted for,&#8221; says Fafudi. Several finished semaglutide products,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-694665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}