The FDA branch located in the North East region has taken possession of unregistered pharmaceutical goods across six districts within the area.

As per Jacob Amoako Mensah, Director of the FDA North East Region, the seized unregistered pharmaceutical items were not intended for over-the-counter sales.

He noted that these products were meant to be acquired with a prescription, yet they were openly exhibited for direct sale to the general public.

Mr Mensah in an interview with the media said, “The Food and Drug Authority since we came to the North East Region over four months now, we have combed the entire six districts of the region and have conducted market surveillance in all the over-the-counter medicine shops."

“We have retrieved a number of unregistered pharmaceutical products that are not to be sold by over-the-counter medicine sellers because for pharmaceuticals, we are supposed to buy them with prescriptions and these drugs found are not supposed to be sold,” he said.

The confiscated goods were disposed of at the Gambaga dam site.