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                    [Title] => Docs alarmed on bad effects of Indo “health supplement”
                    [Summary] => 

Health practitioners in this city have been alarmed at the rising cases of patients suffering from adverse effects of an Indonesian "health supplement" that comes in a form of a coffee drink, which was the subject of a "public health warning" from the Food and Drug Administration last January.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447313 [AuthorName] => Lalaine Jimenea [SectionName] => Freeman Region [SectionUrl] => region [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1338068 [Title] => Banned water color sets still in Cebu City stores [Summary] =>

Some Cebu City retailers are still selling locally-manufactured water color sets the government recently banned for containing high levels of lead, a chemical poison that can harm the brain.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1526426 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1332065 [Title] => Fake pills operation: Two Chinese released after investigation [Summary] =>

The National Bureau of Investigation-7 released Thursday afternoon two Chinese nationals it invited for questioning in the alleged sale of slimming pills not registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532935 [AuthorName] => Mylen P. Manto [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1331691 [Title] => NBI: Products can be dangerous: Downtown raid nets ‘fake’ pills [Summary] =>

Almost 200 boxes of slimming pills and powders not registered with the Food and Drug Administration were seized by the National Bureau of Investigation from two establishments during two simultaneous raids in the downtown area yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532935 [AuthorName] => Mylen P. Manto [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/cebu-news/20140606/nbi-raid-store-for-fake-pills-1.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1330099 [Title] => FDA warns vs bottled stem cell booster [Summary] =>

The public was cautioned yesterday against a bottled stem cell booster being sold online.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140602/fda-warns-stem-cell-booster.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1311406 [Title] => Mosquito coil trader given 30 days to present FDA docs [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs-Cebu is giving the consignee of the two container vans loaded with mosquito coils from China to present the certificate of product registration from the Food and Drugs Administration within the month.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1526426 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon [SectionName] => Freeman Metro Cebu [SectionUrl] => metro-cebu [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1307507 [Title] => Bureau of Customs seizes mosquito coils [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs-Cebu has intercepted two container vans loaded with mosquito coils from China worth P1.6 million after determining that the shipments lack the required papers.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1526426 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1271948 [Title] => FDA warns public vs counterfeit medicine [Summary] =>

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued some tips on how consumers could spot counterfeit medicine, which were once described by the World Health Organization as “the silent epidemic.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1048411 [Title] => FDA: Stem cell therapy regulated, not banned in Phl [Summary] =>

This has reference to the column In search for truth by the Hon. Senator Ernesto Maceda, which was published last July 13, 2013, with the title “Approved stem cell.” Hon. E. Maceda wrote in the first paragraph, “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under Circular 2013-017 has banned stem cell therapy in the country. Why? What is their basis?”

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1000951 [Title] => Huwag magpaloko sa food supplements -FDA [Summary] =>

Pinayuhan ng Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) ang publiko na huwag paloloko sa mga misleading advertisements at promotions dahil hindi maaring pamalit sa gamot ang  iba’t ibang Food and Dietary Supplements (FDS) na namamayagpag sa merkado.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1478575 [AuthorName] => Ludy Bermudo [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) ) )
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