The Upper East Regional Office of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has rid the Bolgatanga Main market of unregistered and unwholesome products to promote public health and safety.
The exercise, which was conducted on a market day, saw officials of the FDA spread across the entire market including shops in the main lorry station in the municipality.
Even though the traders on sighting the FDA officials tried to hide the unregistered products, the officials still fished out the products.
They did not spare traders, who pleaded and shouted, “Please fear God and spare us.”
The unregistered products, some of which had stickers of male sex organs, included herbal products, aphrodisiacs, ointments, hand sanitisers, herbal concoctions, body enhancement and other pharmaceutical products.
The exercise lasted several hours
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) after the exercise, Mr Abel Ndego, the Acting Regional Head of the FDA, reiterated the Authority’s core mandate to ensure the Region remained in regulatory compliance.
“We have been doing our underground work to ensure that we raid the Region to get rid of all forms of unregistered, unwholesome products and anything that has the potential of causing public health threats,” he said.
Mr Ndego said the Authority noticed the infiltration of unregistered and unwholesome products into the Region despite several sensitization programmes for traders over the years on the dangers and penalties for such business.
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