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New Report Reveals Illegal Ingredients for Knockoff Weight Loss Drugs Flooding into U.S. from Foreign Sources, Endangering Patient Safety
The Partnership for Safe Medicines today released a new report that found suspicious, unauthorized, and illegal ingredients for popular diabetes and obesity injectables (commonly known as weight loss drugs) are flooding into the U.S. from foreign sources despite U.S. laws forbidding them from coming through the border.
[...]PSM applauds Arkansas Board of Pharmacy for protecting patients
The Partnership for Safe Medicines applauds the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy for utilizing new product verification technology for identifying illegitimate Ozempic quarantined by a pharmacy this week.
[...]February 10, 2025: NY woman allegedly injected mystery substances instead of Botox
Mystery cosmetic injections allegedly harmed a client in Queens. PSM addressed a misleading drug ad for compounded weight loss medicine.
[...]Over 100 million Americans just watched a misleading ad at the Super Bowl.
You could tell an American that they’re getting a compounded medicine and they would have no idea what that meant. That may be a legal disclosure, but that’s not good enough to protect patients who don’t know what the words mean.
[...]Letter to FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion, CDER
PSM sent the following letter to the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (CDER) asking them to enforce the laws and guidelines that protect Americans from misleading advertising in the Hims&Hers Super Bowl ad.
[...]Letter to Fox Corporation regarding misleading Hims & Hers Super Bowl ad
PSM sent the attached letter to Fox Broadcasting, calling on them to withdraw the deeply troubling and misleading Hims&Hers Super Bowl ad.
[...]February 3, 2025: A New York jury convicts precursor sellers
Employees of the now-closed Chinese chemical company Hubei Amarvel Biotech were convicted at trial after shipping more than 200 kilograms of fentanyl precursor chemicals to the U.S. between November 2022 and June 2023.
[...]Partnership for Safe Medicines statement on weight loss drug ad blitz
Partnership for Safe Medicines released the following statement in response to the advertisement that lifestyle brand Hims & Hers released ahead of the Super Bowl to sell unregulated compounded weight loss drugs
[...]January 27, 2025: Another Canadian sentenced for fake prescription pill sales
Last week a Canadian man got 30 years for selling Americans counterfeit Xanax on the dark web and a New York spa owner was arrested after he allegedly injected patients with fake Botox
[...]January 21, 2025: PBMs pocketed billions by inflating medicine prices, says the FTC
A new FTC report examines how PBM business practices have inflated drug costs.
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