{"id":22090,"date":"2021-03-03T20:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22090"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T17:24:25","slug":"tanzania-probes-firm-buying-pregnant-womens-urine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/tanzania-probes-firm-buying-pregnant-womens-urine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Probes Firm &#8216;buying pregnant women&#8217;s urine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tanzania drugs authority is investigating a company that has reportedly been collecting urine from pregnant women to make human medicine,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/tanzania\/news\/tmda-to-investigate-company-buying-pregnant-women-s-urine-in-dar-es-salaam-3309314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local newspaper The Citizen reports.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tanzania Medicines and Drugs Authority (TMDA) is quoted as saying it does not recognise and has never registered Polai (Tz) Co Ltd &#8211; the company said to be behind the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Citizen newspaper reported that its investigation showed the collection of the urine was being done secretly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It quoted an employee of the company admitting to getting the urine from pregnant women for production of drugs to treat conditions associated with infertility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no scientific evidence to show that urine has any medical benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TMDA said it would take necessary action once it completes investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tanzania drugs authority is investigating a company that has reportedly been collecting urine from pregnant women to make human medicine,&nbsp;local newspaper The Citizen reports. The Tanzania Medicines and Drugs Authority (TMDA) is quoted as saying it does not recognise and has never registered Polai (Tz) Co Ltd &#8211; the company said to be behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98,104],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","category-weird","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22092,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions\/22092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}