Pregnant women in Ghana take whitening pills to get babies with lighter skin

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Ghana warns pregnant women who take pills to whiten the skin (in the hope of lightening the skin of their unborn baby) to stop

. defects, damage to the limbs and internal organs of the baby.

But reports claim that the worrying trend of skin whitening in Ghana is still thriving. In 2017, Ghana banned bleaching products especially those that contained the infamous hydroquinone.

According to a report by the BBC in Africa; The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Ghana has stated that the use of glutathione tablets to lighten skin is "dangerous" and stressed that "… no product has been approved by the FDA in the form of a tablet to lighten the skin of the child ". 19659003] "The use of these drugs has reached an alarming stage, it is the ignorance that makes people do it. [The only things] that you take orally should be food, toothpaste and mouthwash, not bleaching pills, "said the FDA's director of cosmetics and household chemicals, Emmanuel Nkrumah

. / brightening it called an industry of several billion dollars that "dominates the cosmetics market in West Africa."

Statistics show that about 77% of Nigerian women, 60% of Ghanaian women (and more than 10% of men Ghanaians), 59% of Togolese women and 35% of South African women use skin lightening products.

The Ghanaian government claims to be fully engaged in the eradication of companies and individuals selling illegal pills .

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