Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’

Thai health officials have expressed concern over counterfeit or expired malaria drugs discovered along the Thai-Burmese border that could potentially create more resistant strains of the disease. Dr Prat Bunyawongvirot, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Public Health, said during a regional health meeting on Tuesday that malaria is still a major problem in tropical…

The fake medicines violate numerous drug regulations and standards with false VDA content declarations, bacterial contaminations, inconsistent dissolutions of medicines, incorrect weights and textures of drugs as well as improper mixing of eastern and western medicines. 07 September 2006 Read the full story at vietnamnet.vn.

SHANGHAI: Police in the city have uncovered more than 400 kilograms of fake Tamiflu pills, Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau announced yesterday. Thirteen people have been arrested. The investigation showed that the gang made more than 1.6 million yuan (US$200,000) by selling the drugs on the Internet and through other channels to Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jiangsu,…

TRIALS will be held "soon" for the alleged ringleaders of a gang that police say sold 4.6 million yuan (US$575,000) worth of counterfeit Tamiflu – a brand-name drug that's believed to be effective in treating human cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, Shanghai police said yesterday. Six of the 13 suspects detained…

Counterfeit or sub-standard, anti-infective drugs are a widespread and under-recognised problem, increasing the resistance of diseases to treatment and undermining trust in health care in the developing world, researchers warned in a study published on Monday. "Much more needs to be done now to improve this enormous, yet neglected problem that affects particularly the poorest,…

Officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) off-load boxes of fake drugs for destruction at the premises of the agency in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2001. Counterfeit or sub-standard anti-infective drugs are a widespread and under-recognised problem, increasing the resistance of diseases to treatment and undermining trust in health care…

China descubri 167.000 casos de produccin ilegal y comercio de medicinas y equipo mdico en el primer semestre del ao, inform la Administracin Estatal de Alimentos y Medicinas (AEAM). Un total de 260 millones de yuanes (32,5 milliones de dlares USA) estuvieron involucrados en los casos y ms de 200 lugares de produccin clandestina de…

MICROWAVE oven … power-drill … batteries. Handy home gadgets commonly found in most households. Yet danger lurks if you had bought those items on the cheap. It might explode in your face or break to bits. Rita, Haris and Sam are among those who have been victims of sub-standard and fake products which are creeping…

BEIJING – In the first half of the year China prosecuted 1,076 cases of intellectual property rights (IPRs) infringement, said China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) in Beijing on Wednesday. According to a press release by the Chinese Customs, altogether 39 million fake items were seized with a total value of more than 68 million…