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View larger map In the United Kingdom, three men and one woman in southeastern Wales have been sentenced in a counterfeit drugs case involving a fake online pharmacy based in Pakistan. Andrew Luxton was sentenced to one year in jail. Samantha Steed was sentenced to 12 months in jail, suspended for 18 months. Carl Willis was sentenced to 6 months…
Read MoreWhat does the Canadian government have to say about online ‘Canadian’ pharmacies? It’s not just the FDA who believes that it’s not safe to purchase prescription drugs from Canadian web pharmacies. Health Canada agrees. Since 2004 they have issued nine advisories (listed below) warning Canadian citizens to be wary of online drug sales. Four of those warnings pertain to fraudulent…
Read MoreBilling Insurance Companies for Imported Drugs is a Crime In November 2012, Tennessee oncologist William Kincaid pled guilty to purchasing cancer drugs from unauthorized distributors who were hawking counterfeit drugs with no active ingredient. Dr. Kincaid deprived his patients of needed cancer treatments and endangered their lives, but–as with Al Capone–the Federal government’s case against him focuses on fraud. Dr. Kincaid…
Read MoreHow Can Counterfeit Drugs Be Useful to Terrorists? It’s popular to imagine that counterfeit drugs are a democratizing strike against high drug prices, offering effective treatment for the needy. But counterfeiters are solely profit oriented and counterfeit drugs are dangerous. Last year, researchers at the NIH found that a third of malaria drugs around the world are fake. A large…
Read MoreImportation proposals in Maine endanger patients What: There are two proposals in the Maine legislature today to import drugs from all over the world that would endanger Maine patients without saving them any money. They are LD 171 and LD 449 and you need to call the statehouse before they are discussed in committee on Thursday May 9th, 2013. LD 171…
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Read MoreView larger map On March 21, 2013, Paul Bottomley, a citizen of the United Kingdom, signed a plea agreement acknowledging his guilt in distributing counterfeit versions of the cancer drug Avastin in the United States. He admitted that the business he founded, Montana Healthcare Solutions, played a significant role in distributing the counterfeit cancer medication to doctors and medical practices…
Read MoreSpecial agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HIS) seized approximately $ 4 million worth of counterfeit goods and pharmaceuticals in South Carolina.
The seizure was the result of an investigation that began February 19th. Investigators from ICE-HSI, the South Carolina Secretary of State’s Office, Blazer Investigations and Pfizer found a stockpile of counterfeit goods in a warehouse in Columbia. The bulk of the seized counterfeit items were counterfeit pharmaceuticals, according to the ICE.
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Read MoreThe FDA has released photographs of a portable XRF analyzer designed to screen dietary supplements for toxic metals. The device is one of a new generation of portable screening tools, which will allow investigators to discover and seize adulterated drugs before they are available to consumers. The FDA’s new efforts rely on spectroscopic technologies that “analyze the dispersion of an object’s light determine the object’s chemical or molecular composition.”
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