The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has refuted assertions that the Board intends to collapse herbal and traditional medicine practice in the country. According to the Drug Inspection and Regulation Director for the Board, Issaka Collison, the board wants the right things done with regard to herbal medicine practice in the country. Issaka Collison was speaking on Adom Fm’s Dwaso Nsem on Thursday, in reaction to claims by the Ghana Federation of Traditional Medicine and Practitioners Association (GHAFTRAM), that the Board wanted to collapse their businesses. Issaka Collison questioned the justification of the claims by GHAFTRAM where people allegedly mix turpentine and charcoal as cure for vaginal infection treatment, as well as mixing sawdust and other materials and sell it to innocent Ghanaians as herbal medicine. "We are there to protect the public interest; the Board is not in to collapse their businesses,” Issaka Collison emphasised. Three months ago, the Board seized herbal medicines from Kingdom Herbal and Yafo worth thousands of Ghana Cedis. But Issaka Collison said the seized goods were still in the custody of the Board because investigations were not yet complete. He therefore warned that anyone who buys drugs from Kingdom Herbal and Yafo does so at their own peril because drugs from the two companies had not been certified by the FDB. In a related development, Issaka Collison has urged GHAFTRAM members to officially write to the Board for review of the new regulation on herbal drugs in the country. He said if the association is not happy with terms and conditions of the Board over the new tests which is efficacy and Toxicity tests, negotiations will be done to ensure that the right thing is done. However, the Public Relations Officer for GHAFTRAM, Nana Kwadwo Obiri believes the Board introduced these new tests to collapse the businesses of herbal medicine in the country. Nana Kwadwo Obiri argued that the Board did not give any grace period for the new regulation and also did not state where the tests could be done. He noted that the cost of the efficacy test is as much as GH¢3,200) while the Toxicity test costs (GH¢3,400).