{"id":21118,"date":"2025-09-14T02:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21118\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T02:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:28:05","slug":"fda-cracks-down-on-unregistered-remedies-in-dambai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21118\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA cracks down on unregistered remedies in Dambai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has taken decisive action against unregistered traditional remedies in Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region.<\/p>\n<p>On September 10, 2025, FDA officials conducted an inspection of food establishments in response to a surge in typhoid cases in the region.<\/p>\n<p>During the inspection, officials encountered Madam Victoria Dordoe, 54-year-old woman carrying unregistered traditional remedies.<\/p>\n<p>The seized products include &#8216;syrup bazouka AKA 47&#8217;, &#8216;bombaraba premiere qualite&#8217;, &#8216;nyame na ye&#8217;, &#8216;follow me like dog&#8217;, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>The Volta and Oti Regional Director of FDA, Gorden Akurugu, said the products were detained for containing unapproved or harmful ingredients, including steroids.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that, the FDA&#8217;s actions aim to protect public health and safety by ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has taken decisive action against unregistered traditional remedies in Dambai in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-21118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}