The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has evoked five brands of male s3x-enhancement pills sold on Amazon.

On Monday, the public alert with No. 010/2022, signed by the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, stated that the recall was as a result of undeclared Tadalafil/Sildenafil present in the pills.

With this in mind, NAFDAC alerts the public of voluntary recall of the brands of the male sex-enhancement pills by their manufacturing companies.

The agency said it acted on a notification sent by Amazon to the Food and Drug Agency in the US, concerning the laboratory analysis which found the products to contain undeclared tadalafil/sildenafil.

CEOAFRICA obtained that sildenafil and tadalafil are ingredients known as phosphodiesterase (PDE-5) inhibitor found in the FDA approved product for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.

However, the presence of sildenafil/tadalafil in the products made them unapproved drugs for which their safety and efficacy had not been established and therefore, subject to recall.

These implicated products are marketed as dietary supplements for male sexual enhancement and sold online on Amazon.

According to the alert, the undeclared tadalafil/sildenafil ingredient may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, capable of lowering blood pressure to dangerous levels that may be life-threatening.

NAFDAC disclosed that such situation is a risk for people with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease who often take nitrates.

However, urging consumers to discontinue purchase and use of the implicated products, it added that members of the public in possession were implored to handover said products to the nearest NAFDAC office.

The Punch