Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the “real” Ralph Balmaceda

It was brought to my attention last Sunday, June 20, 2021 that somebody used my name to send an email report to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitting a complaint against ABN Online Radio Pilipinas.

I did not send the report and the email address is not mine.  To clear my name, I sent a formal inquiry to FDA on Thursday, June 24, 2021 and emailed an advance copy on that same day.  The next day, June 25, 2021 at around 08:30am, Director Arnold Alindada of FDA South Luzon Cluster called me to acknowledge my inquiry and explained what happened.

Below is a copy of my letter to FDA and their reply:

Ralph Balmaceda inquiry letter to FDA (click to enlarge)
FDA reply to Ralph Balmaceda (click to enlarge)

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to FDA for acting on this inquiry with urgency.  In light of this, I would like to advise the public to please disregard any posts on websites, social media accounts or verbal claims that I’m the one who sent the report to the FDA, when in fact, someone else sent it using a bogus email and maliciously used my name.

Ralph L. Balmaceda