Kumasi, Feb. 24, GNA – The Ashanti Region branch of the Ghana National Association of Traditional Healers will soon constitute a task force that will randomly inspect herbal products for destruction as a measure of ensuring the production and use of safe herbal medicine.
The task force will bring to book, traders found to be selling herbal products that have not been duly certified by the Centre for Scientific Research Into Plant Medicine and the Food and Drugs Board. Dr Kenneth Okwampa Danso, National President of the Association disclosed this when the national executive of the association called on the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Mr Ofosu Mensah-Gyeabour to inform him of the intended formation of the task force and to solicit the assistance of the police when the task force begins its work. The task force, he said will also have representation from the FDB and the Centre for Scientific Research Into Plant Medicine.
Dr Okwampa Danso said the task force will flush out the quack manufacturers of herbal medicines whose products had raised doubts about the efficacy, potency and the authenticity of plant medicine.
He decried instances where the labels of products had the certification of the GFDB but had unwholesome contents, stressing that, the association will also take a critical look at the increasing spate at which some unscrupulous people were imitating tried and tested products on the market to the detriment of their original producers and health of the people.
Source: GhanaWeb
