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Egyptian Drug Authority flags four misleading ads for unregistered weight-loss products
November 3, 2026 at 07:32 PM
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5 reports · over 8 hours
The Egyptian Drug Authority has listed four misleading social media ads promoting unregistered weight-loss products, including one featuring actress Dalia Mostafa.
- The authority flagged ads for Exolime, Retatrutide, Pro Cut, and Reta as misleading promotions of products it has not registered.
- The authority logged three violations for Exolime ads on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, which were deleted from Mostafa's accounts after the warning.
- Yasser Rajai, the authority's assistant head, said monitoring flagged and corrected 640 ad violations and filed 719 reports against pages advertising unknown-source drugs.
- The authority urged citizens to verify product status on its website and report violations through hotline 15301.




