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Russia, France, Germany and other European countries signed the first ever international treaty to combat the counterfeit medicine industry . Developed in 2010, the Council of Europe created a binding international instrument based upon the Right to Life provision in the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Signatories of the treaty agree to criminalize activities that produce or…
Read MoreThis is a reprint of the FDA Alert. Keime Inc dba Barry's Vitamins Conducts a Nationwide Voluntary Recallof Virility Max Dietary Supplement: Lot Number 10090571 November 10, 2011 – Keime Incorporated announced today that it is conducting a voluntary recall of one lot of the companies dietary supplement product sold under the following name: Virility Max. The company has been…
Read MoreThe United States Pharmacopeia (USP) has released an updated Russian translation of its National Formulary at the Russian Pharmmedobraschenie Conference in Moscow on October 26, 2011. USP is a nonprofit, scientific organization that develops quality standards for medicines. Its National Formulary publishes standards to support the testing of medicinal products and ingredients. In the US, USP’s Formulary is the standard for…
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In 2011, the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) released a report detailing the dangers posed to American children if the secure and safe U.S. medical supply chain is opened to foreign drugs through importation.
Read MoreUkrainian authorizes announced that of the 1.2 billion packages sold in country in 2010, 2.5 million were fake medications. Most medications were antibiotics and hormone drugs that bore counterfeit labels from well-known drug manufacturers, and almost 50% of the counterfeit medications were purchased from the internet according to Intelvlas, reported Petosevic. Ukrainian authorities say they have been working on more…
Read MoreThe Philippines Bureau of Food and Drug Administration (BFAD) helpd workshops in Batangas to educate consumers about the risks and prevalence of counterfeit medicines. BFAD is working on a long-term public education campaign to teach people not to purchase medications from unregulated sources. Rowena Tupas of the BFAD said that counterfeit medications are thriving because they are inexpensive and the…
Read MoreChinese authorities instituted a major counterfeit medicine raid in Henan province cumulating with 114 people arrested and 65 million bottles of medicine collected, estimated at $30 million. Reports Securing Pharma, raids on 117 locations in Anyang, in northern Henan, revealed manufacturing and sales locations for the fake drugs. Police were first alerted to the ring following the investigation of a…
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Read MoreA national poll by Consumer Reports National Research Center says that though Americans are suffering from recession, buying medicines at discounted rates from so-called online pharmacies is a bad idea because the risk of counterfeit medicines is so great. Says Consumer Reports (CR), “ordering from foreign websites should be avoided altogether.” CR discovered that only a fraction of online…
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