Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’

CHINA'S armed forces health department yesterday published a list of 16 bogus military medical institutions advertising fake drugs, as it battles health fraud. "These bogus military institutions advertised fake drugs in newspapers, magazines and on Websites, posing a serious threat to public health and to the image of the People's Liberation Army," said the Health…

BEIJING, July 27 (Reuters) – More than a fifth of all Chinese goods from dumplings to electric blankets fail to meet quality standards, creating potential health and safety risks, officials said on Thursday. They blamed the prevalence of fake and shoddy goods on the underdeveloped state of the economy and said counterfeiters were becoming more…

Taipei, July 26 (CNA) The Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Justice has busted a fake medicine operation in Taichung and seized 300 kg of counterfeit drugs, a spokesman for the bureau said Wednesday. The spokesman said a mobile unit of the bureau in Taichung raided the warehouse and a distribution center in Taichung the…

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Cradled in her mother's arms, tiny Liang Jiayi stares blankly. Foam begins to flow from her mouth and her lifeless body suddenly goes into a spasm. "She's cramping," her father Liang Yongli cries out as he and his wife massage the contorted limbs of the five-year-old. Jiayi used to be lively…

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao presided over an executive meeting of the State Council Wednesday, which passed in principle a resolution on the issue of energy saving and approved punitive measures in handling a major fake drug case and a deadly coal mine explosion. The resolution, entitled "State Council Resolution on…

Davao City (7 July) — Local government units must take extra caution in buying cheap medicines. Davao City councilor Pilar Braga in an interview said that with the proliferation of cheap medicines which are often associated with fake drugs, the government must take necessary measures since government purchases are given to the lowest bidder. 07…

Police yesterday arrested at least eight store and warehouse owners found selling bootlegged Viagra in a series of raids yesterday in Sta. Cruz and Binondo, Manila. The seized 1,127 boxes of imitation of Viagra were estimated at a market value of P3.3 million. By Romie A. Evangelista06 July 2006 Read the full story at manilastandardtoday.com.

A pharmaceutical company that made a drug which killed 11 people in Guangdong Province has been fined 19 million yuan (US$2.3 million) by a drug watchdog. The production licence of the Qiqihar No 2 Pharmaceutical Company, based in Northeast China, has also been revoked by the Heilongjiang provincial food and drug administration and the sale…

(Kyodo) _ Police served a fresh arrest warrant Thursday on two foreigners on suspicion of smuggling and selling fake Viagra and other medicines without a license, they said. The police and customs seized a total of about 100,000 pills at Kansai International Airport and other places related to the suspects — Kim Lorenzo Gen, a…

Counterfeit Medicines can be life threatening, the Department of Health, Region VI warned. According to the DOH about ten percent of medicines bought in pharmacies are fake. Counterfeit or fake medicines are not registered with the Bureau of Food and Drugs. It is manufactured and distributed by persons who only seek for money. 26 June…