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Officials from Nigeria and several of its neighboring countries will meet in Abuja, Nigeria, to discuss the recent cholera epidemic as well as counterfeit drugs. The meetings, to be held on October 17 and 18, will focus on the epidemic that has already claimed the lives of 350 people in Nigeria, according to 234Next.com. A statement from the Minister of…
Read MoreA Wisconsin pharmacist was recently arrested on charges that she imported and sold millions of pills of phony erectile dysfunction medication and other counterfeit drugs. Marla Ahlgrimm, who owns a number of businesses in Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested when she walked into her office while authorities were executing a search warrant, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Ahlgrimm is accused…
Read MoreLund University Researchers from Sweden and the U.K. recently developed an anti-counterfeiting technology that they hope can combat the problem of fake drugs, particularly in Africa, according to AlphaGalileo.org The researchers have created a prototype of the device. It resembles a small suitcase and users place the medication in its packaging in the device, which tells them whether the…
Read MoreGovernments are stiffening regulations against fake drugs and conducting more aggressive raids, as anti-counterfeiting technologies improve and NGOs support anti-counterfeiting campaigns. Counterfeit medicine smugglers have not been as aggressively pursued by international law enforcement as heroin or cocaine smugglers , however governments are stiffening regulations against fake drugs and conducting more aggressive raids. Companies are improving technologies to best the…
Read MoreTwo men were recently sentenced to prison for their involvement in an illegal online pharmacy. Daniel L. Dailey’s company, PowerMedica, illegally sold steroids and human growth hormone to thousands of customers over the internet. Dailey, who admitted that the company didn’t require prescriptions or customers to be seen by doctors, was sentenced to 46 months in jail as PowerMedica’s chief…
Read MoreNigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) recently arraigned a businessman on charges of importing counterfeit drugs. Paulinus Ejike Onuorah was arrested in May by NAFDAC agents at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja for allegedly bringing fake medicines into the country, reports the Nigerian Compass. One of the counts against the businessman read, “That you Paulinus…
Read MoreOfficials from Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) are asking a number of pharmacies that were recently found to be selling counterfeit drugs to reveal the source of the fake medication. A special NAFDAC team from Lagos found 20 pharmaceutical and medicine shops in Yola, the capital of the Adamawa State, dealing counterfeit drugs through on-the-spot screenings,…
Read MoreDistributor Sentenced to Prison A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 months in prison by an Arizona judge after pleading guilty to distributing counterfeit drugs earlier this year. Hazim Gaber had pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud in connection to selling a white powder he claimed was the experimental cancer drug dichloroacetate (DCA) to at least 65…
Read MoreThe Drug Enforcement Administration and government, community, public health and law enforcement partners announced a nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft. DEA will be collecting potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for destruction at sites nationwide on Saturday, September 25 th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. The…
Read MoreIn April 2010, the Cambodian Ministry of Health announced that the previous 5 months had seen the enforced closure of nearly 65% of the Illegal pharmacies operating in the country. The US Agency for International Development (USAID)-backed Promoting the Quality of Medicines Programme-which is active in 30 nations-had gathered evidence that these pharmacies were a significant source of counterfeit and…
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