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Dubai Customs have confiscated AED5m ($1.4m) worth of counterfeit medicine at the city's Cargo Village, it announced yesterday. Customs inspectors at the cargo facility found around 556,000 fake Plavix pills – an anti-clotting drug used to treat heart ailments – packed in 20,000 boxes and shipped from the Mauritius islands, Ahmed Butti Ahmed, director general of Dubai Customs said at…
Read MoreDubai Customs has confiscated the largest quantity of counterfeit drugs worth Dh5 million from a shipment from Mauritius. Around 555,000 pills, usually prescribed for heart attack or stroke-prone patients, containing traces of white cement were seized from two containers. By Emmanuelle Landais3 July 2007 Read the full story at gulfnews.com.
Read MoreThe Food and Drug Administration cannot warn people enough about the possible dangers of buying medications online. Some Web sites sell medicine, such as prescription and over-the-counter drugs, that may not be safe to use and could put people's health at risk. The current system of federal and state safeguards for protecting consumers from using inappropriate or unsafe drugs has…
Read MoreSierra Leone's Pharmacy Board Friday destroyed over Le 500 million fake and counterfeit drugs. The destruction exercise took place at the Central Medical Stores compound, New England Ville in Freetown. The destruction was aimed at eradicating fake, substandard and counterfeit drugs nationwide. Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas noted that the exercise is another mile stone in the board's history,…
Read MoreA congressional staff briefing on Monday by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America addressed drug reimportation "in anticipation that lawmakers will try to legalize low-cost drug purchases from abroad by attaching it to must-pass legislation," CongressDaily reports. At the briefing, titled "Know the Threat Behind Importation," Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and…
Read MoreDirector General of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, said yesterday in Akure, Ondo State, that the Agency destroyed counterfeit drugs worth not less than N20 billion in the last six years. Akunyili, in a key note address delivered on her behalf by head of the Ondo State NAFDAC office, Dr Debo Agbejimi,…
Read MorePolice have urged the Bureau of Food and Drugs to enforce a warrant of seizure over P500 million worth of unregistered medicine from China found during a raid in Tondo, Manila last Friday. A senior police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, alleged that the case of the illegal drug trade of Chito Lu, principal suspect, was being stalled at…
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