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The Department of Health has issued an emergency warning to regional health bureaus across the nation, asking them to be on the lookout for counterfeit drugs that are believed to have made it onto the market from a Chiayi County drug counterfeiting operation. A operation by the National Police Agency (NPA) on Saturday uncovered a counterfeit drug ring based in…
Read MoreDUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 17 (UPI) — Counterfeit drugs sold online and seized in the United Arab Emirates arrived through a series of global free trade zones, investigators in six countries said. The recent seizure of warehoused drugs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, revealed a medicine trading chain from China, Hong Kong, Dubai, Britain and the Bahamas, and finally…
Read MoreThe ongoing New York Times series "A Toxic Pipeline" continues to shed light on the complex routes that counterfeit drugs take before being sold by Internet pharmacies, many of which purport legitimacy with Canadian, British or Australian websites.
Read MoreIn December 2007, Akhil Bansal, an Indian physician and a graduate student at Temple University in Philadelphia, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, 5 years of supervised release and a forfeiture of $250,000 after being convicted of 2 counts of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, 1 count of continuing criminal enterprise, 2 counts of conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs…
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