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Update: On December 13, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated William Scully’s conviction because a lower court “declined to allow Scully to introduce evidence at his 2015 trial showing he sought legal advice about importing drugs with foreign labels from one of his lawyers.” Ultimately Scully pleaded guilty to one charge of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate…
Read MoreThis is a reprint of an FDA Alert. FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. For Immediate Release November 9, 2015 Contact Consumers Media Innafit,LLC …
Read More“Canadadrugs.com and their co-conspirators are charged with shipping $78 million of counterfeit and unapproved medicines to unsuspecting patients across the United States,” said Thomas Kubic, PSM board member and former FBI Deputy Assistant Director who spent 30 years at our nation’s top law enforcement agency. “Yet to this day and since 2002, Canadadrugs.com has been listed as an “approved” and “safe” online pharmacy by a leading U.S. firm whose business model involves helping Americans unknowingly break the law and put their welfare at risk.
Read MoreThe internet is full of online pharmacy websites selling prescription medications at discounted prices, but most of those pharmacy websites are unlicensed, uncertified drug distributors. The medicines they sell are manufactured and sold outside government regulation, and because they’re unregulated, consumers who purchase them can never be sure what it is they are buying. Unlicensed drug sellers often claim to…
Read MoreHow to Start a Partnership for Safe Medicines The Partnership for Safe Medicines is a coalition of more than 60 patient, physician, pharmacist, university, industry and other professional organizations committed to the safety of prescription drugs and protecting consumers against unapproved, counterfeit, substandard, mishandled or otherwise unsafe medicines. If you would like to start an effort to fight counterfeit drugs…
Read MoreInternational Principles for Drug Safety Download your own copy of International Principles for Drug Safety in English and French. Patient safety is being compromised due to counterfeit drugs. Around the world, patients are encountering fake medicines. The packaging seems right, the tablets or capsules look the same—but these fakes are really imitations of government-approved drugs created in unsanitary or unsterile…
Read MorePartnership for Safe Medicines India Formed: Decemer 2010 Website: www.safemedicinesindia.in Media contact (India): Toll Free Helpline:1800-11-4424 Media contact (US): Teresa Schofield, teresa@safemedicines.org, +1.202.347.7947 Media fact sheet: About PSM India [PDF] Media coverage: Partnership For Safe Medicines Launches India Initiative, The Business Standard Health Group to Protect Consumers Against Fake Drugs, Press Trust of India Partnership for Safe Medicines begins India…
Read MoreCongressional Briefings The Partnership For Safe Medicines Congressional Briefings, September 24, 2019 On September 24, 2019, the Partnership for Safe Medicines and 19 partner organizations held two congressional briefings about the real dangers counterfeit drugs pose to Americans. In all, the briefing offered a clear picture of why importation cannot solve the problem of high drug prices in the U.S.…
Read MoreA Brief History of Online Pharmacy Regulations On February 10, 2010, Google announced the elimination of PharmacyChecker.com as a certifying authority for U.S and Canadian online pharmacies – a major departure from its previous policy. Its advertising program AdWords now accepts advertising from an online pharmacy in the U.S. only if it has been verified by Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice…
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