Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’
Women risk lives to buy abortion drug over internet
UP to 10 Australian women have illegally bought the controversial abortion pill RU486 over the internet, despite warnings they are putting their lives at risk. A South Australian woman is also among those considering purchasing the drug online, after finding the product available for about $US65 (about $85) from an international website. By Laura Anderson20…
[...]Viagra not working? It may be a counterfeit
The Health Ministry has found that more than half of the counterfeit drugs seized were sold as sex stimulants or Viagra. Fake drugs with a face value of RM16 million were seized over the past 10 months. Ministry Pharmaceutical Services Division principal assistant director Ahmad Nozrin Taharin said they were mainly sold through direct sales.…
[...]New Zealand scientist warns of fake drugs
WELLINGTON: A New Zealand scientist warned on Wednesday of sophisticated Asian-based rackets producing billions of fake medicines that kill thousands of people every year. Dallas Mildenhall said some of the counterfeit pills not only lacked the proper ingredients to treat illnesses such as malaria but contained carcinogens, solvents and even remains of insects. 25 October…
[...]Pharma firms fret over sophisticated fake medicines
Foreign pharmaceutical companies attending the meeting said they were finding it difficult to detect copycat drugs due to the increasingly enhanced technology of faking medicine. Sanofi, a Vietnam-based French pharmaceutical company, has petitioned the Vietnam Health Ministry, citing two of its medicines that were counterfeited in the local market. 19 October 2006 Read the full…
[...]EU, China monitoring seaports to counter surge in fake drugs – report
BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) – The European Union and China have started monitoring major seaports including Rotterdam and Shenzhen for counterfeit pharmaceuticals, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing EU Taxation and Customs Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs. European customs have seized fake drugs ranging from antimalarials to vitamin supplements, the report said. 16 October 2006 Read the full story…
[...]Medicine counterfeiters arrested
Customs officers have arrested eight people, shutting down a syndicate producing, packaging and distributing counterfeit Chinese cough medicine. They raided a manufacturing site and a distribution company in two factory buildings in Kwai Chung, and three dispensaries in Sham Shui Po and Yau Ma Tei. 06 October 2006 Read the full story at news.gov.hk.
[...]Spurious drug unit detected
Police on Monday night unearthed a spurious syrup factory and seized 5,000 bottles of addictive phensidyl syrup from Porahati Bazaar in the Keraniganj area of the capital. 27 September 2006 Read the full story at gulf-times.com.
[...]Northern company found manufacturing copycat drugs
A pharmaceutical company in northern Ha Tay province Wednesday was forced to destroy bulk packages of drugs found to be similar to a French medicinal product. The Hatay Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company (Hataphar) demolished the 1,920 copycat empty packages under the supervision of inspectors of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE) and the…
[...]Australian raid over billions of Viagra spams
Incidence of fake drugs drops by 24.3 percent in Nigeria: study
ncidence of fake drugs has dropped by 24.3 percent in the past five years, according to a study on counterfeit and substandard medicines in the country released on Friday. At the ceremony the study was released in the capital Abuja, NAFDAC Director General Dora Akunyili said, "overall, counterfeit drugs in circulation have dropped from an…
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