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Last week, BBC File On 4 published a story detailing how counterfeit drugs infiltrated the United Kingdom’s national drug supply in 2007. The Medicines Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)—the British equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—issued four emergency recalls notices after a wholesaler spotted packaging discrepancies in several drugs imported from other European countries.
Read MoreA NEW Ministry of Health task force plans to launch a crackdown next month on pharmacies selling counterfeit over-the-counter drugs. The task force, composed of police officers and called the Police of Justice for the Ministry of Health, will operate in all of the Kingdom's 24 provinces and municipalities, Chou Yinsim, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Health,…
Read MoreGrady Jackson, a defensive tackle with the Atlanta Falcons, said he used the weight-loss capsules. Kathie Lee Gifford was enthusiastic about them on the “Today” show. Retailers like GNC and the Vitamin Shoppe sold them, no prescription required. But the Food and Drug Administration now says those weight-loss capsules, called StarCaps and promoted as natural dietary supplements using papaya, could…
Read MoreGovernment has said it would from this month intensify border checks on drugs coming into the country to control the proliferation of fake and counterfeit drugs.The move comes after reports of counterfeit and fake versions of malaria drug artesunate, commonly known as LA, in Kenya where police reportedly struck and seized hundreds of thousands of the fake drugs and also…
Read MoreClinicians who prescribe medicines in the UK at primary care and at hospital level are facing the possibly disastrous consequences of a global crime wave – the supply and distribution of counterfeit medicines and healthcare products.
Read MoreMost people are aware that some jewelry is fake and imitation fancy watches can be bought for less than $50. The only harm here is the economic damage to those selling authentic watches and real gems. But there is a significant business worldwide in the clandestine market of counterfeit prescription drugs that has caused real trouble. Untold numbers of people…
Read MoreThe Ministry of Public Security put up a notice on its website Thursday offering 10,000 yuan (1,460 U.S. dollars) for information on a man suspected of leading a drug ring pushing fake diabetes medication that has caused the deaths of at least two people. Li Dong, the main suspect at large, was born in 1970 and allegedly sold the fake…
Read MoreSANTO DOMINGO. – The Dominican pharmaceutical sector, grouped in three associations, yesterday accused the Public Health authorities of negligence for allowing the growth of the fake medicines market of around 800 to billion pesos per year, and doesn’t discard that other deaths have occurred for the use of fake anti tetanus boosters. 6 February 2009
Read MoreA toxic chemical mixed into a teething medicine for babies has killed at least 84 children in Nigeria, health officials there said Friday, more than tripling the toll in a wave of infant deaths that began in late November. The children died after taking a medicine called My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture, a syrup for teething pain, according to Nigeria’s…
Read MoreSpot the Fake The counterfeiters selling chalk, powdered concrete, and boric acid (or worse) as if they were real drugs are very good at making their product look like the real thing. How good? So good that sometimes not even the experts can always tell the genuine drugs from the fake ones without analyzing its chemical composition. See…
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