{"id":121857,"date":"2017-10-06T03:52:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121857"},"modified":"2017-10-06T03:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:52:47","slug":"fda-warns-vs-use-of-8-unregistered-healing-galing-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/06\/fda-warns-vs-use-of-8-unregistered-healing-galing-products\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA warns vs. use of 8 unregistered \u2018Healing Galing\u2019 products"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121864\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FDA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121864\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FDA.jpg\" alt=\"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning the public against consuming eight unregistered food supplements with therapeutic claims under the trademark &quot;Healing Galing&quot;, being sold and advertised in a webpage. (Photo:  Food and Drug Administration Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"599\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FDA.jpg 599w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FDA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FDA-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning the public against consuming eight unregistered food supplements with therapeutic claims under the trademark &#8220;Healing Galing&#8221;, being sold and advertised in a webpage. (<a href=\"https:\/\/scontent.fmnl9-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/537497_456436451079081_563310028_n.jpg?oh=65f271670862cbbf3e66cfbb90836d5f&amp;oe=5A85A80A\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FDAPhilippines\/\">Food and Drug Administration Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">MANILA<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0&#8212; The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning the public against consuming eight unregistered food supplements with therapeutic claims under the trademark &#8220;Healing Galing&#8221;, being sold and advertised in a webpage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">In its Advisory No. 2017-275, the agency named the food products that are promoted at http:\/\/healinggaling.ph\/ but are not registered with the FDA \u2013 Healing Galing Rhizome Pills; Healing Galing Herbal Serpentina Tablets; Healing Galing Omega 3 Fish Oil; Healing Galing Organic Vitamins B1, B6; Healing Galing Organic Vitamin B12; Healing Galing Healing Food; Healing Galing Black Rice Coffee; and Healing Galing Pure Honey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">The FDA said that since unregistered food products have not gone through evaluation and testing, the agency could not guarantee their quality and safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">\u201cThe consumption of such violative products may pose potential health hazards to the consuming public. Food products, including food supplements, should not bear any misleading, deceptive, and false claims in their labels and\/or any promotional materials that will provide erroneous impression on products\u2019 character or identity,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Republic Act No. 9711, or the \u201cFood and Drug Administration Act of 2009\u201d, prohibits the manufacture, import, export, sale, offering for sale, distribution, transfer, non-consumer use, promotion, advertising or sponsorship of health products without proper authorization from the FDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Administrative Order 2010-0008 likewise states that no person shall advertise, promote, or use in any sponsorship any food\/dietary supplement unless it is duly registered and approved by the FDA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning the public against consuming eight unregistered food supplements with therapeutic claims &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[13407,26320,26321],"class_list":["post-121857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-healing-galing","tag-unregistered-products","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}