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It doesn’t matter if you live in United States, Europe, Asia or Africa —everyone is at risk from unsafe tainted or counterfeit drugs. Anywhere in the world, you can come across medicines seemingly packaged in the right way, in the form of tablets or capsules that look right, but that do not contain the correct ingredients and, in the worst…
Read MoreImporting Danger: The Global Threat of Parallel Importation The United States has one of the safest drug supplies in the world because its pharmaceutical supply system is “closed” to importation and parallel trade. Once a drug is outside the strictly regulated United States distribution channel, there is no guarantee of its authenticity, effectiveness, or safety. Drug importation supporters think that…
Read MoreWarning Signs Purchasing drugs from online pharmacies can be convenient and economical. However, there are numerous illegal Web sites that will sell you contaminated or counterfeit drugs, or products that have not been approved by the FDA, deliver the wrong product, or take your money and never deliver anything in return. The good news is that many Web sites for…
Read MoreClick here to download a print copy of our Safe Savings resource. The Internet has made it possible to compare prices and buy products without ever leaving home. However, it has also made it easy for unscrupulous people to sell unapproved and counterfeit drugs to unsuspecting customers. These drugs may be: Too strong or too weak Missing key ingredients Made…
Read MoreThese oversized postcards sent to Hill staff illustrate the dangers of counterfeit drugs and the Partnership’s core principles: protect the pharmaceutical supply chain, regulate online pharmacies, and fight counterfeit drug. We encourage you to share these postcards electronically or in printed form with your constituency.
Read MoreAfter years of neglect, I’m glad to see Congress give drug safety the attention it deserves. Last week, Reps. John D. Dingell (D-MI 15), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ 06) and Bart Stupak (D-MI 01) introduced the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009 (H.R.759). In addition to addressing several food safety issues, the proposed legislation addresses the real threat of substandard and counterfeit drugs.
Read MoreMainland authorities have found more than 5,000 bottles of fake diabetes medication in two provinces that last month were blamed for the deaths of two patients, state media said. The patients died in Xinjiang. Now the government has found the same fake drug in Sichuan and Qinghai, state radio said. But nobody has yet been found to have fallen sick…
Read MorePharmaceutical industry officials in Kenya estimate that at least 40 percent of the drugs sold in the East African nation are counterfeit, with anti-malarial drugs being especially susceptible to being faked. Patients continue to be sick or can even die as a result of taking counterfeit drugs, most are believed to originate from China and India. By Cathy Majtenyi 4…
Read MoreURUMQI, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — Nine people were hospitalized after taking a counterfeit diabetes drug in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that last month caused the death of two others, said the local government Tuesday. Four of the nine people were being treated in Kashi People's Hospital and are in stable condition. Five others had been released from hospital,…
Read MoreThirty-thousand packs of fake life-saving drugs may have been consumed by NHS patients, the BBC has learned. A senior official from the government's medicines watchdog said the case must lead to tightening of the law.
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