FDA Is Acting Like A “Military Regime”

Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, Samuel Awuku has admonished the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) not to "witch-hunt" Pharmaceutical companies in the country. According to him, the FDA seems to take delight in clamping down on locally-based pharmaceutical companies and in making such attempts, tend to debase their corporate image as well. He described as unfortunate the ordeal of Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Limited and Bliss GVS Pharma, at the hands of the FDA, and wondered how effective the monitoring role of the FDA is. “The FDA should not become a witch-hunting machine instead of their duty as regulators. Did they know all this while about their wrongdoing and they sat down...? I suspect there’s more to it than meets the eye…It’s like a military regime at the FDA,” he said. He feared the actions by the FDA may not augur well to the international community because to him, the FDA's actions does not "make sense. It’s never made sense and it won’t make sense.” The Food and Drugs Authority, a couple of weeks ago, seized over 100 medicines imported and distributed by Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Ltd claiming the drugs were fake.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana