FDB Warns Against Two Brands of Artesunate

The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Friday directed all clinics and companies holding stocks of 50 mg artesunate tablets with logos of "Sunflower" and "Lever" manufactured by Adams Pharmaceutical Group Company Limited of China to return them to the suppliers. The FDB said the two brands of artesunate on the market had not been registered in the country and warned that it could not guarantee their safety. "The Board cannot guarantee the safety, efficacy and quality of these brands and wishes to advise healthcare providers and the general public not to patronize them," the FDB said in a statement in Accra.

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