The Partnership for Safe Medicines applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its week-long effort to curb sales of medicines and medical devices from rogue online operators, dubbed OPERATION PANGEA IV.
Read MoreKaho Kwok, PhD at Purdue University, College of Pharmacy has received a $50,000 fellowship from the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) for the study of Raman spectroscopy used in counterfeit medication analysis.
Read MoreCongressmen Jim Matheson of Utah and Brian Bilbray of California have re-introduced a bill to improve authorities abilities to address the counterfeit medicine problem.
Read MoreJohn Gray, CEO and President of the Healthcare Distribution Management Association, spoke on the critical issues of patient safety and access to safe and efficient medicines.
Read MoreCoordinating more than 1,200 law enforcement agents, Taiwanese authorities raided 238 locations on September 23-24, 2011. In the raids, 168 suspects were apprehended on allegations of making and selling counterfeit medicine.
Read MoreBob Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, will be the luncheon speaker at the Partnership for Safe Medicines 2011 Interchange on October 27 at the National Press Club.
Read MoreUnited States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation on September 22, 2011 to establish a process for the organizations to collaborate to improve drug quality internationally. At a signing ceremony in New York, Dr. V. I. Skvortsova, deputy minister of healthcare…
Read MoreNewfoundland and Labrador police are warning local residents not to purchase medications from unlicensed online vendors. Says Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt Boyd Merrill, “The fake pill industry… has sales in the billions of dollars and people in Newfoundland and Labrador are getting scammed as much as the rest of the world,” reports the CBC…
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