{"id":131962,"date":"2025-11-10T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131962\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:23:10","slug":"health-ministry-bans-sale-distribution-of-popular-thai-inhaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131962\/","title":{"rendered":"Health ministry bans sale, distribution of popular Thai inhaler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"570\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/91e641b2-hong-thai-formula-2-inhaler-fb-pic-061125.webp.jpeg\"\/>The \u2018Hong Thai Formula 2\u2019 inhaler was not registered with the drug control authority, according to the health ministry. (Facebook pic)<br \/>\nPETALING JAYA: Malaysia has banned the sale and distribution of a popular inhaler from Thailand, which Thai authorities had recalled with immediate effect due to microbial contamination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">In a statement, the health ministry said the \u201cHong Thai Formula 2\u201d inhaler had not been registered with the drug control authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cThe sale and possession of unregistered medicines constitute an offence under the Control of Drugs and Cosmetics Regulations,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The health ministry\u2019s ban comes days after Thailand\u2019s Food and Drug Administration recalled the product for failing health quality tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">According to the ministry, \u201cHong Thai Formula 2\u201d is advertised and sold on several e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cWe have submitted complaints to the respective platforms, requesting that they remove the product listings immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">It also advised the public against purchasing the product and to immediately stop using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018Hong Thai Formula 2\u2019 inhaler was not registered with the drug control authority, according to the health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,50273,76942,61,69920,60,371,1667],"class_list":{"0":"post-131962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-ministry","10":"tag-hong-thai-formula-2","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-inhaler","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-thailand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}