The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has banned the sale of products that contain a chemical mostly found in body bleaching creams.
Speaking to Christopher Asima, host of the day break upper east on A1 Radio, Mr. Ndego Abel of the Upper east regional food and drugs authority said “the bleaching agent in most bleaching creams is hydroquinone and the Ghana standard now is, there should be zero percent hydroquinone in bleaching creams and the Food and Drugs Board, being the regulatory authority has taken that standard and we are now implementing it. So since January this year, we don’t register a product that has hydroquinone in the product”.
The increase in the sale of hydroquinone creams has become a public health concern with many health practitioners warning against their use.
The FDA has had meetings with cosmetic sellers on the market and “is working with them to ensure that those creams are not available on the market and asked that the public help the FDA in this fight by reporting to the FDA should you detect the sale of hydroquinone creams on the market .
Aside from this, the FDA is also ensuring it is on top of food safety issues, which captures public attention when reports of alleged plastic rice and the like surface.
Christopher Asima/a1radioonline.com/Ghana
