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Perhaps the strangest thing about the trial of eight men and one woman for conspiring to supply counterfeit medicines was that some of them only met each other for the first time in the dock of Kingston Crown Court. As this lengthy trial developed from the scheduled 12 weeks to a shade under nine months the defendants of what the…
Read MoreChinese authorities ordered the recall of tainted leukemia drugs blamed for leg pains and other problems, state media reported Sunday, the latest crisis to strike the country's embattled food and drug industries. Most of the drugs involved – methotrexate and cytarabin hydrochloride – have been recovered and authorities have traced the remainder, the Xinhua News Agency said. The report did…
Read MoreAIDS drugs, some of them contaminated, diluted or faked, are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe's economic crisis, the health ministry said Monday. State media quoted Minister of Health David Parirenyatwa appealing to people living with HIV/AIDS to buy their medicines from registered pharmacies, clinics and hospitals…
Read MoreLast month a federal grand jury indicted 18 people on charges stemming from fraud to racketeering over their participation in an international online pharmaceutical sales ring. The company's name was Affpower, and by the time the federal government had shut the sales operation down, Affpower had moved over $126 million in illegally prescribed pharmaceuticals. The arrests haven't managed to stem…
Read MoreA federal grand jury has indicted the owner and a sales representative at College Pharmacy, a Colorado Springs-based pharmacy, for the illegal importation and distribution of human growth hormone (HGH). According to the indictment, the defendants allegedly bought, received, and distributed HGH from companies that manufacture genetically derived HGH in China, including GeneScience. Pharmacist Thomas Bader, who owned and operated…
Read MoreThe management of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has,within the past six years, confiscated and destroyed fake and counterfeit drugs worth more than N20 billion. The Director General of NAFDAC, Professor Dora Akunyili, disclosed this in Owerri while delivering the 2007 Odenigbo Lecture Series organised by the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province.…
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