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Dr. Yashica Robinson-White, 38 of Opelika, Alabama is being prosecuted based on her business dealings with a black market wholesaler running out of Great Neck, New York. Dr. Robinson-White is accused of committing health care fraud for purchasing non-FDA approved IUDs from Medical Device King and implanting them in patients as if they were FDA-approved IUDs. The Department of Justice…
Read Morevia Flickr. Canadian online pharmacy CanadaDrugs.com suspended from supplying drug wholesalers and pharmacies after Health Canada investigations produced “significant concerns” with their shipping and storage practices. Canada Drugs has previously been identified as the owner of several subsidiary companies in the United States and United Kingdom that have been implicated in the importation of counterfeit versions of cancer drugs, osteoporosis…
Read MoreThis is a reprint of an FDA Alert. [6/12/14] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to purchase or to use Thorne Research’s Captomer or Captomer-250, marketed as a dietary supplement for heavy metal toxicity and heavy metal chelation therapy. The products list DMSA (meso-2, 3-dimercaptosuccinic acid), as an active ingredient, which is contained in an FDA-approved…
Read MoreJim Dahl Assistant Director of the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) (retired) Jim Dahl is an independent product security consultant with significant experience in the public and private sectors. He is considered a subject matter expert in pharmaceutical crime and malicious product tampering. Jim is a retired federal law enforcement agent with 30 years experience having spent his last…
Read MoreAt the end of June in 2013, the FDA sent warning letters to close to 800 medical practices throughout the United States concerning their business exchanges with a black market medication wholesaler called Medical Device King/Pharmalogical. The subsequent investigation of Medical Device King has resulted in counterfeit drug and fraud charges being leveled against the president and vice president of…
Read MoreAt Interchange 2013, we heard from Christopher Weaver of the Wall Street Journal about the role black market drug wholesalers played in the distribution of counterfeit Avastin. Dr. Marv Shepherd also described the tactics shady drug wholesalers use to sell their wares to hospitals. Since then there have been several prosecutions against black market drug wholesalers. At Interchange 2014, we’ll…
Read MoreWashington, D.C. (June 5, 2014) – Marv Shepherd, President of the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM), the leading advocate in the fight against counterfeit prescription drugs, today issued the following statement on the 16th Global Anti-Counterfeiting Day: “On World Anti-Counterfeiting Day, PSM stands united with our global partners in the war against fake medicines. Although counterfeit medicines continue to be…
Read MoreIn another case of a medical practitioner stepping outside the secure drug supply chain, a Florida doctor stands accused of purchasing medication on the black market via Internet sites purporting to be in Canada and elsewhere. Howard Skalmberg, Deputy Commissioner for the FDA’s Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, will be the keynote speaker at Interchange 2014 in Washington D.C. At…
Read More97% of online pharmacies are unsafe. The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s survey of online pharmacies found that only 3% of online pharmacies are safe to purchase medication from. Join us at SAFEMEDICINES Interchange 2014, September 18 in Washington, DC to find out what new strategies online criminals are using to ensnare unsuspecting consumers. AGENDA 7:30 a.m. – 8:30…
Read MoreBlack market cancer medication exploded onto the front pages in 2012 when counterfeit Avastin was found in doctors’ offices throughout the nation. Since 2007, more than 1,000 doctors have received warning letters from the FDA for doing business with known purveyors of counterfeit cancer medication. SAFEMEDICINES’ report, Black Market Cancer Drug Cases 2007-2013 describes the growing infiltration of fake and…
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