AGRA/NEW DELHI: On July 16, 2003, Dr Brij Bhushan Bansal posted an advertisement on the Internet, introducing himself as a wholesale distributor and supplier of generic and branded medicines manufactured by top pharmaceutical companies of India. Saturday April 23 2005 Read the full story at newindpress.com.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressmen Greg Walden (R-OR) and Jim Davis (D-FL) today reintroduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would protect online consumers from potentially unsafe prescription drugs purchased from Internet pharmacies. Saturday, April 23, 2005 Read the full story at bend.com.

A great deal of current information reveals that importing prescription drugs into the United States is not sound policy. Prescription drug costs in America are unquestionably high and importation has been promoted by many as the solution to the problem. It is not. Joe Bell April 22, 2005 Read the full story at opinioneditorials.com.

DES MOINES — The House approved a bill that would make it illegal in Iowa to manufacture counterfeit prescription drugs or to sell them. By DAVID PITT, Associated Press Writer Friday, April 22, 2005 Read the full story at wcfcourier.com.

An illegal pharmaceutical distribution and global money laundering syndicate in Australia has been closed down after Australian Federal Police raided properties in Perth as part of an international crackdown. 21:44 AEST Thu Apr 21 2005 Read the full story at ninemsn.com.au.

Last week, N. Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced charges against several of drug traffickers who illegally supplied narcotics and other highly addictive controlled substances over the Internet without prescriptions. Apr 20, 2005 Read the full story at govtech.net.

WASHINGTON – Twenty people in the United States and abroad were arrested on charges they ran Internet pharmacies that illegally shipped narcotics, steroids and amphetamines to teenagers and other buyers around the world, federal authorities announced Wednesday. By The Associated Press Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Read the full story at dailybreeze.com.

Patients' lives are being put at risk because of substandard drugs, experts have warned. 19th April 2005 Read the full story at .com.