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Online fake drugs alarm

October 3, 2007
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A sharp rise in the supply of counterfeit drugs, fuelled by the use of the internet, has been highlighted by a series of prosecutions by British regulators. In the most high-profile case, Ashish Halai was last month sentenced at Kingston Crown Court to four-and-a-half years in prison, following a five-year investigation dubbed Operation Stormgrand. Investigators called him the linchpin in…

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Akron man pleads guilty to selling fake Viagra

September 28, 2007
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An Akron man has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit prescription drugs. Ryan Wheele, 31, of 13th Street, was trafficking in fake Viagra, Cialis and Levitra pills that were manufactured illegally and shipped to him from Pakistan, India and Great Britain between December 2005 and June 2006, authorities said. 27 September 2007 Read the full…

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Nigeria: Akunyili On Drug Counterfeiting

September 28, 2007
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"The problem of counterfeit drugs and other regulated products is rapidly rearing its ugly head in developed countries and this is fueled by purchase of drugs via the internet. The negative impact of counterfeit drugs and other regulated products knows no boundaries. Resistant strains of micro-organisms do not need visa to travel from country to country." -Prof. Dora Akunyili Sadly,…

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NAFDAC seizes over N6m fake drugs in Onitsha

September 25, 2007
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Three people engaged in illegal production of fake sterilised water for medical use in Onitsha, Anambra State have been arrested by regulatory officers of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Also, two other culprits connected with the production of packaging materials used for the fake water for injection drug have absconded as NAFDAC swooped on their…

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Beware of fake drugs

September 25, 2007
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A LEADING surgeon yesterday warned that counterfeit medical drugs were being sold alongside medicines stolen from the public health system openly at markets throughout the country. Dr Polapoi Chalou said health centres and aid posts were not supplied with medical drugs because the medicines were going into the wrong hands, often stolen and sold, causing serious shortage of drugs. Dr…

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Fake Viagra Is Death Risk

September 25, 2007
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FAKE Viagra tablets that are so powerful they could kill have been supplied to chemists in Britain. A Chinese factory is producing the pills, which are three times the strength of the real thing, along with other copies of drugs, including cancer treatments. 24 September 2007 Read the full story at dailyrecord.co.uk.

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Factory for fake prescription drugs

September 24, 2007
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Fake drugs worth Rs 5.3 cr seized

September 22, 2007
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HYDERABAD: The Drugs Control Administration (DCA) has seized Rs 5.36 crore worth of spurious, sub-standard and illegal drugs from godowns and industrial units in the state in the last few weeks. Ironically, Rs 4.80 crore worth of drugs were manufactured without a valid licence. “A special drive was taken up by the DCA from February to September 2007 to prevent…

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Discontinue use of online pharmacies

September 22, 2007
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Congress may soon consider legislation that would allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from foreign countries. Lawmakers who plan to vote for it should first read a new report on online pharmacies published by the respected Internet fraud expert MarkMonitor. Published in August while Congress was on vacation, it found that of the 3,160 online pharmacies it studied, almost all…

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Study to probe extent of spurious drug industry

September 21, 2007
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