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Counterfeit medicines pass through Finland to world markets
Counterfeit versions of patent medicines are increasingly passing through Finland on their way to the world market. Last week, for instance, Finnish Customs confiscated a consignment of counterfeit impotence pills and diet drugs. The manufacturers of the genuine substances were notified. In the early part of the year Finish customs had confiscated about 140,000 doses…
[...]Investigators find fake drugs in China
Medical investigators have found batches of a fake blood-boosting drug in northeastern China in the latest scandal to taint its pharmaceutical industry, state press reported yesterday. More than 2,000 bottles of fake human albumin were discovered in Jilin Province at 18 hospitals and 39 retail and wholesale drug outlets, China Central Television reported. 11 June…
[...]Nigeria: China’s Condemned Drugs Boss
A recent report from far away China may have unwittingly demonstrated how pervasive and pernicious the issue of drugs adulteration is around the world and also how different nations have chosen to react to the scourge. According to the report, a Chinese law court had been so disgusted with the illegal, unethical and murderous certification…
[...]Alarming number of counterfeit drugs reach patients
Drugs, even prescription drugs, can be dangerous. Millions of Americans take one or more pharmaceutical drugs every day and the pharmaceutical industry rakes in billions of dollars every year. Most of these drugs are as safe as they can be, and your pharmacist is a valuable gate-keeper that deals with the drug manufacturers, the insurance…
[...]Chinese gangs ‘behind fake drugs’
Trans-national ethnic Chinese gangs are behind the growing trade in counterfeit anti-malarial drugs in South East Asia, the BBC has been told. John Newton, a senior investigator with Interpol, said counterfeits are now starting to appear in Africa too. He said the gangs involved organised criminals working across national boundaries and faking the drugs on…
[...]Warning over fake batch of ‘lifesaving’ cancer medicine
Thousands of cancer patients have been warned to be on alert for a fake batch of a 'lifesaving' medicine. Drug regulators recalled a batch of the prostate cancer drug Casodex after the discovery of counterfeit tablets. A police investigation has been launched after a recent surge in the number of fake copies of key drugs…
[...]ICC urges G8 to take lead in stopping product counterfeiting and piracy
NBI raids yield P100,000 in fake hypertension drugs
The National Bureau of Investigation recently confiscated alleged imitations of hypertension drugs worth over P100,000 from four different pharmacies in Laguna province. NBI Chief of Intellectual Property Rights Division (IPRD) head agent Jose Justo Yap said the NBI team found some 2,323 pieces of fake hypertension and vasodilator drugs in pharmacies in San Pablo City,…
[...]Importers of fake Viagra sent to jail
Two importers of fake Viagra pills recently received prison sentences, in two separate cases. This marks the first time jail time has been handed down for importing imitation Viagra. The first defendant, textile trader Moshe Perach, received 15 months after a container of clothing he was importing was found to contain 160,000 of the blue…
[...]Illicit online drug sales rampant
Buying prescription drugs illegally over the Internet is on the rise in the United States, according to witnesses testifying before a Senate panel yesterday. The number of rogue Web sites selling prescription drugs such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Ritalin has increased for three straight years, according to a new report released yesterday by the National…
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