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Raid on Counterfeit Drugs
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and…
[...]Counterfeit antibiotic drugs worth Rs 20L seized
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and…
[...]Police seize 7 lakh fake Saridon tablets from Solan-based co
DCGI plans survey to detect counterfeit drugs
NEW DELHI: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is planning a survey to detect the quantum of spurious and substandard drugs being sold to unsuspecting customers. The regulator, mandated to look after safety, efficacy of drugs and give marketing approval, plans to cover 61 popular brands of medicines used in nine therapeutic categories including…
[...]Prescription Drugs Found Online, Abused by Teens
A Columbia University study has shown that prescription drugs can be easily bought on the Internet, while another study by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America indicates that many teens are abusing them. Columbia University's five-year study, which has been documented annually in a report called "You've Got Drugs! Prescription Drug Pushers on the Internet,"…
[...]How to Assure Quality Drugs
Prof. Dora Akunyili, NAFDAC Director-General, says good distribution systems are imperative in ensuring the quality and identity of pharmaceutical products. She spoke Tuesday in Abuja at an interactive meeting between NAFDAC and state Directors of Pharmaceutical Services. 23 July 2008 Read the full story at thetidenews.com.
[...]W. African States To Check Counterfeiting
A national dialogue to serve as a platform for discussing strategies to overcome counterfeiting and piracy of products in West Africa, opened in Accra yesterday. It is under the theme: "Protecting the consumer against counterfeit products through inter-agency and sub-regional collaboration". The main thrust of the dialogue is to ascertain concerns raised about the way…
[...]Defendant Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Trafficking in More Than $400,000 Worth of Counterfeit Drugs
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Iyad Dogmosh, a Jordanian national, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for trafficking in more than 38,000 counterfeit Viagra tablets, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein for the District of Maryland announced. U.S. District Judge…
[...]Fake Drugs – NAFDA Quizzes Indian Firm’s MD
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has begun the interrogation of the Managing Director of a Lagos-based company, Food and Pharma Limited, Mr. Nitin Kantilal, over the alleged importation of a fake anti-diarrhoeal drug, Maxcure Loperamide capsules. By Niyi Odebode17 July 2008 Read the full story at punchng.com.
[...]Fake Drugs Require More U.S. Policing, Pfizer’s Kindler Says
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and…
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