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Congress activists stage demonstration
BHUBANESWAR: Congress activists on Monday staged a demonstration in front of the Raj Bhawan demanding dismissal of Naveen Patnaik-led Government and a CBI probe into the fake drugs and infanticide incidents. The party supporters belonging to Bhubaneswar district unit also submitted a memorandum to Governor Rameshwar Thakur in this connection. 31 July 2007 Read the…
[...]China arrests 15 for making and selling fake drugs
BEIJING – Chinese police have arrested 15 members of a crime ring that made and sold fake medicines, a Chinese newspaper said on Monday amid a domestic and global confidence crisis about the country's food and drug safety. Police in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang seized more than 30,000 phials of fake vaccination medicine, including…
[...]Senate bill could open U.S. to dangerous counterfeits
Lifewire: The risk behind Internet drug ads
Internet advertisements for prescription drugs sold at prices lower than those at your local pharmacy are certainly tempting. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to warn all Americans that succumbing to that temptation could have serious consequences. A recent FDA alert cautions American to beware of counterfeit drugs sold on 24 related Web…
[...]China Acts on Its Promises To Strengthen Safety Controls
BEIJING — China announced Wednesday that its State Council passed a draft regulation to strengthen food safety in the wake of discoveries of toxic chemicals that prompted international bans and recalls on its exports. China, which has been working to convince the world it is serious about cracking down on dangerous and phony drugs and…
[...]Zimbabwe: Fake ARVs Flood Country
UNLICENSED drug dealers are flooding the market with a variety of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that could do more harm than good, the country's medicines regulatory body has warned. The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said this week that individual drug importers had flooded the local market with ARVs, which they are selling from unlicensed…
[...]Official suspended, five arrested in Orissa fake drug racket
Bhubaneswar : The Orissa government suspended a drugs inspector and arrested five persons for their alleged role in a fake drugs racket that was unearthed recently, officials said Wednesday. "T.V. Rao, a drugs inspector posted at the district headquarter of Bolangir has been suspended for his alleged role in the circulation of fake medicines," a…
[...]Drugs banned: yet available in India
Pharmacy owners arrested for selling illegal drugs
The Jakarta Police have confiscated more than 160,000 medicines that lacked distribution permits and arrested two people for allegedly distributing the drugs. Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said they suspected the drugs were substandard because they were not accompanied by the appropriate documentation from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency on their…
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