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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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreFAKE 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.
Read MoreHYDERABAD: 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…
Read MoreCongress 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…
Read MoreAn Akron man made thousands of dollars distributing fake Viagra, Cialis and Levitra for an illicit online pharmacy, federal prosecutors say. Ryan Wheele, 32, was charged in federal court with conspiracy and trafficking counterfeit goods for his alleged role in a ring that sold imitation pills to treat erectile dysfunction under the radar of the Food and Drug Administration. Wheele…
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