Food and Drugs Authority (Ghana)

Again, we also are taking steps to connect with institutions like the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, because we believe they would have an interest in it.

FDA has an interest because FDA is one of the groups that was assigned the responsibility of designing the Ghanaian brand of the standards.

And so FDA is very much involved, not only FDA, but the Ghana Standards Authority.

Of course, Ministry of Health has not done much Indeed, I would say that, speaking for myself, if I were government, what I would have done was to set up an inter-ministerial and inter-agency entity so that that agency could coordinate it.

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FDA cracks the whip in the Ashanti region, shutting down a new Akambitas factory at Asenfi for illegal production after finding undeclared citrate.

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The Food and Drugs Authority in the Ashanti region has shut down a factory operated by Uni Associates Company Limited at Senfi in the Bekwai municipality, allegedly resuming production of Akan Beaters after its main factory was closed.

The closure comes after FDA officials discovered the company had launched a new facility at Senfi to continue manufacturing the alcoholic beverage after its factory at Pakotse in the Asokore Mampong municipality was shut down in September.

In social stories, the Food and Drug Authority has given Franco Herbal Centre 14 days to recall Franco Herbal mixture from the market after laboratory tests reportedly detected diazepam and paracetamol that were not declared an ingredient.

in a recall notice dated october 19 2026 the authority directed the company to remove the affected products from circulations it also urged members of public retailers and distributors to report anyone continuing to sell the mission to the nearest fda office The FDA further stated that the manufacturing facility at Jacobu in the Ashanti region had been closed down and that the recall product would be safely disposed of.

According to the authority, the product was registered as a herbal medicinal preparation containing three plant ingredients.

Laboratory analysis, however, reportedly established that The mixture also contains azepam and paracetamol.

The concern is not simply that the substances are medicines.

It is that consumers buying the products presented as herbal preparations may be unaware that these additional drugs are present.

The FDA has warned that diazepam can cause serious effects, including excessive sedations and respiratory depressions, particularly when it interacts with other substances.

Paracetamol can also cause severe liver damage when taken in excessive quantities.