Whatsup News has seen independent laboratory results debunking claims by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) that popular local herbal immune-boosting supplement, Coaf-Fs is contaminated with E-coli bacteria found in faeces.
Test results released on April 29, 2020, by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) shows that COAF-Fs range of products do not contain “excessive” Yeast, Mould and E.coli as alleged by the FDA press statement.
The documentary test results seen by Whatsup News shows that the Centre of Awareness Global Peace Mission (producers of COAF-fs) had to cough up some GHC 4,170 for the CSIR to conduct tests on the natural supplement.
The FDA in a press statement dated April 17, 2020, and signed by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mrs Delese A. A. Darko said samples of COA FS picked from the market and the manufacturing facility of COA Herbal Centre in Workroom in the Central Region showed excessive microbial, mould and yeast contamination.
The FDA consequently ordered the recall of all COAF-fs products on the market.
This sudden recall by the FDA raised serious suspicions among the Ghanaian public particularly because it came at a time when there was an indication that COAF-Fs could help in the Covid-19 coronavirus that had been recorded in Ghana a few weeks earlier.
Critics alleged that there was a deep conspiracy to suppress all possible natural treatments to pave way for potential mandatory vaccination in Ghana against Covid-19.
COAF-fs’ producers which had been approved by the FDA several years ago, insisted that the FDA’s tests were wrong and had undertaken independent tests on the product to verify the FDA’s claim. According to the Centre of Awareness Global Peace Mission, that test debunked the FDA’s claim.
The latest test, with batch numbers CFA00003 and CFS00004 tested three different COAF-Fs products. It is the second in a row of tests conducted by COAF-Fs producers to ascertain the curious allegations by the FDA.
The first test was done by the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital’s laboratories.