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World Health Organization Approves Ghana’s Food And Drugs Authority Centre For Laboratory And Research

August 29, 2022

By Maxwell Nkansah The World Health Organization has recognized Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Centre for Laboratory Services and Research. It has become the first laboratory to be approved within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region. The Food and Drugs Authority released a press statement on August 24 indicating the FDA has currently become the only food and drug regulatory agency within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sub-region to be recognized internationally as a competent institution to test medicines and medical products under the advocacy of the World Health Organization (WHO). "By this achievement, the FDA is now the only food and drug regulatory agency within the sub-region to be recognized internationally as a competent institution that can test medicines and medical products under WHO auspices. The results of medicines tested by the FDA will therefore henceforth become acceptable to all countries. " The FDA added that the laboratory attained the prequalified quality control level ( QCL). The organization may be invited to WHO for monitoring projects to assess the quality of vaccines and medicines procured by United Nations agencies. "With this accomplishment by the FDA’s laboratory as the only WHO-prequalified laboratory in the ECOWAS sub-region, the Authority is in readiness and poised to provide effective regulation to support the national vaccine manufacturing agenda and ensure access to quality, safe, and efficacious vaccines and medicines for the nation and the African Continent."  

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