The Kimberley Prospector

GRANDPA pills and powders have been pulled from Namibian shelves after the medicine failed climatic stability tests.

The Namibia Medicines Regulatory Council announced that all tablets and powders manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline must be recalled.

“The recall is a result of the product failing stability studies at 30 degrees. These products are therefore not fit to be stored under climatic zone IV, in which Namibia is found,” the council’s registrar of medicines, Johannes Gaeseb, said in a statement on Friday.

Gaeseb said these products must not be imported or used in Namibia until further notice.

Source: Namibian

Grandpa painkillers stolen off hijacked truck in Port Elizabeth

Police in Port Elizabeth are searching for four suspects who hijacked a truck full of Grandpa pain killers in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The truck driver told police he was hijacked around 2 am while travelling on Old Grahamstown Road in the direction of Deal Party.

Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says a white bakkie with four occupants pulled up in front of the truck and forced it to stop at a traffic circle at the corner of Paterson Road and Old Grahamstown Road.

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