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June 1, 2021: CBP in Ohio Seizes $1.2 million in Counterfeit Drugs and Medical Devices
Customs and Border Protection are hard at work protecting Americans from counterfeit medicines and fake medical devices. Read on to learn about recent seizures of prescription steroids, COVID-19 test kits and more in Cincinnati, and catch up on 27 other stories about medicine safety.
[...]May 24, 2021: History Repeating: Doctor Injected Patients With Black Market Medicine
A Mississippi physician will pay more than half a million in fines, forfeitures and restitution for treating his patients with foreign, non-FDA-approved versions Prolia, Boniva, and Aclasta.
And 15 more stories from the world of counterfeit medicine.
[...]Counterfeit pill dealers poison their victims. The press should say so.
The media speaks as if counterfeit pill victims were seeking drugs and “overdosed” because they took too much of them, but that doesn’t accurately reflect what is happening. Too often, victims have been sold drugs that they weren’t seeking at all.
Help PSM tell journalists that pill victims have been poisoned, not overdosed.
[...]May 10, 2021: 12 Federal Drug Cases with Fatalities—8 with Fake Pills—in California, and more counterfeit news
U.S. Attorneys in California announced 12 new drug prosecutions (8 for fake fentanyl pills) all of which involved deaths. Plus, 19 more stories about counterfeit medicines and COVID-19 fraud.
[...]RSS: Counterfeit News in Vermont
An RSS feed of news about counterfeit medicines found in Vermont
[...]RSS: Counterfeit News in Missouri
An RSS feed of news about counterfeit medicines found in Missouri
[...]RSS: Counterfeit News in Connecticut
An RSS feed of news about counterfeit medicines found in Connecticut
[...]RSS: Counterfeit News in Michigan
An RSS feed of news about counterfeit medicines found in Michigan
[...]May 3, 2021: A short extension for fentanyl analogue scheduling, and more counterfeit news
A short 6-month extension for emergency scheduling of fentanyl analogues, an update to Illegal Pill Presses: An Overlooked Threat to American Patients, and twenty more COVID fraud and medicine safety stories.
[...]Fake Remdesivir in India and more counterfeit news, April 26, 2021
This week’s roundup includes: Fake remdesivir plagues India and 18 more counterfeit medicine and COVID-fraud stories you may have missed.
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