{"id":12805,"date":"2012-07-27T01:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/fake-drugs-leads-to-gsk-recalls-in-safrica\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T01:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:33:55","slug":"fake-drugs-leads-to-gsk-recalls-in-safrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fake-drugs-leads-to-gsk-recalls-in-safrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake drugs leads to GSK recalls in SAfrica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 26<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; GlaxoSmithKline<br \/>\nsaid on Thursday it is recalling some of its over-the-counter<br \/>\nheadache medicine in South Africa after police discovered<br \/>\ncounterfeit versions of the painkiller.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for GSK said the counterfeit versions of<br \/>\nGrand-Pa Powders were limited to two batches, but declined to<br \/>\nsay how much was believed to be in circulation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no reason to suspect that other batches are<br \/>\naffected,&#8221; Liezl Sabbagh, marketing director for GSK&#8217;s South<br \/>\nAfrican unit, adding the company was alerted to the drugs after<br \/>\npolice raided a drug counterfeiting operation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>State broadcaster SABC reported that police arrested a<br \/>\n45-year-old for allegedly manufacturing fake Grand-Pa powders in<br \/>\nOranjeville, a town in the Free State province about 100 km<br \/>\nsouth of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grand-Pa is one of South Africa&#8217;s top over-the-counter<br \/>\npainkillers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 26 (Reuters) &#8211; GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday it is recalling some of its over-the-counter headache medicine in South Africa after police discovered counterfeit versions of the painkiller. A spokeswoman for GSK said the counterfeit versions of Grand-Pa Powders were limited to two batches, but declined to say how much was believed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}