Health Minister ups pressure on IPA over Lailac milk

Local distributor International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) Guyana Ltd’s refusal to comply with an order to withdraw Lailac Infant Milk from circulation should see the case being turned over to the police, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has said.

Noting that the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) works with certain rules, Norton told Stabroek News yesterday that if the IPA is refusing to comply with the orders issued by the entity, then the matter should be turned over to the police for investigation and action.  “They should be sanctioned by the police if that is the case,” he said.

He said the FDD has to work on resolving the matter and asked who