Food and Drugs Board swoops on illegal drug dealers at Agbogbloshie
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Monday extended its swoop on traders in illegal drugs and aphrodisiac to the Agbogbloshie Market in Accra and seized large quantities of their products.
About 15 shops were raided, five people arrested and are assisting the Police in their investigations, after which the necessary sanctions would be applied according to the Law.
This brings to three, swoops organized by the FDB, recently, with the assistance of the Police CID.
The first two were at the Kaneshie and Okaishie markets, which revealed that some persons, under the guise of selling raw herbs, actually deal in some pharmaceutical products, especially sex-enhancing medicines.
Some of the medicines have only Chinese and other foreign language inscriptions.
A statement issued by the FDB has, consequently, advised the public to be cautious about the circulation of a variety of unregistered medicines, especially aphrodisiacs, being offered for sale to unsuspecting consumers on the market.
It said it was important for the public to note that the safety, quality or efficacy of medicines sold in unapproved premises could not be guaranteed, therefore, very likely to create severe health complications.
“These sex-enhancing medicines, which have inscriptions in Chinese, Akan, Russian and other foreign languages, on the packaging, have not undergone any laboratory analysis or testing by the Food and Drugs Board and therefore their safety cannot be guaranteed,” it said.
The public, it advised, should ensure that they purchase medicines from only approved premises (Licensed Chemical Shops and Pharmacies) since these places are licensed premises and are being manned by qualified personnel.
Persons selling these unapproved medicines are being reminded that it is an offence under Section 18 of the Food and Drugs Law, to offer for sale, supply, manufacture, prepare, export or import into Ghana any medicine unless they have been registered with the Food and Drugs Board.
Section 18 of the Food and Drugs Law states that: ‘No person shall manufacture, prepare, sell, supply, export or import into Ghana any drug, cosmetic, medical device or household chemical, unless the article has been registered with the Food and Drugs Board.”
Investigations are, however, underway to determine how these products got unto the market and arrangements being made to get the seized medicines destroyed.
It gave the assurance that anyone found culpable would be dealt with according to the Law.
Additionally, information from the public on persons dealing in these unregistered medicines or suspected to be in any practice possible of endangering public health and safety with respect to FDB’s mandate is most welcomed, the statement said.
Any of the following contact numbers; 0244337235, 0244337252 or 0244385086, should be used, the statement urged.
Below are names of some of the seized unregistered products that the public should be cautious of:
1. ME DE GYE WO KUNU (for women)
2. My Sexy Secret (for women sex power)
3. MAN & WOMAN CREAM
4. HIP UP cream (look young & firm-breast & buttocks enlargement)
5. FANTA (to cure White)
6. Black Warrior (aphrodisiac capsule)
7. AK-47 (enlarge your penis & increase sexual stamina)
8. 12TH NIGHT
9. B-MAN (exceed Viagra and cialis)
10. BLACK SUPERMAN (makes it big, thick, long-lasting, increasing sperms)
11. BEAUTIFUL PENIS AUGMENTS CAPSULES
12. HERB VIAGRA
13. BIG PENIS (quickly enhance sexual power)
14. THE KING (easy to be a man)
15. GREAT PENIS
16. AFRICA KING
17. VIRGIN POWDER (makes you a virgin even when you are not)
18. ARABIAN CREAM (insert into vagina part)
19. Top Secret (tightening vagina & reduce lubricant)
20. TO BE BIG CREAM
21. ORGINAL GREEN WATER (treats white and all kinds of diseases)
22. LOVE PORTION CREAM (vaginal cream)
23. ORGINAL KARYAGADO (made in Nigeria)
24. NYAME NA AYE POMADE
25. SUPER SEX CAPSULES
26. LUMP SUGAR (dedee)
27. ALHAJI ABDULAHI
28. CheChe TOUJOUR (true love cream-made in Nigeria)
29. AMARIA candies (made in Nigeria)
30. Super Strong 4 in 1 Men Cream (sexual excitement, long lasting, enlarging & bigger) made in Greece
31. YAN DUNIYA
32. APHRIDISIAC MILK
33. GLO POWER multi vitamin caplets
34. RED SUCCUBA
35. LONELY GIRL
36. HIP UP CREAM
37. SPAIN BLACK BUTTERFLY
38. FEEL MAN (100% healthy food for men)
39. MEN GEL
40. PLAYBOY BUNNY GIRL
41. LOVE CREAM (Touch me)
42. COME UNSTOPABLY
43. CHECHE TOUJOUR CREAM D’AMOUR
44. AK-47
45. SEXUAL LOVE
46. JAGUAR POWER
47. MILK APHRODISIAC
48. SUPER BONEE CREAM
49. GERMANY KIM FOX
50. POMADE CROCODILE
Source: GNA