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Ryan Haight. Marcia Bergeron. They paid with their wallets for diverted and counterfeit drugs. They also paid with their lives.
Read MoreThe National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has begun the interrogation of the Managing Director of a Lagos-based company, Food and Pharma Limited, Mr. Nitin Kantilal, over the alleged importation of a fake anti-diarrhoeal drug, Maxcure Loperamide capsules. By Niyi Odebode17 July 2008 Read the full story at punchng.com.
Read MoreThe proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people…
Read MoreThe United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has accused India's largest generics drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories, of forging and concealing documents relating to an investigation into the quality of the company's drugs sold in the US market and has filed a motion in the district court of Maryland seeking documents from the Indian firm. Ranbaxy depends on the…
Read MoreThe Internet is increasingly used as a virtual stand-in for the street-corner drug dealer. Highly addictive medications are just a mouse click away as rogue pharmacies take up residence online and are willing to supply drugs to anyone with a credit card. A just-released report found 85 percent of Web sites selling controlled substances do not require a prescription or…
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) seized hundreds of counterfeit anti-hypertension and pain-relieving medicine in raids conducted in Manila and Caloocan City recently. Raided were Acebedo General Hospital on General Luis Street, Bagbaguin, Caloocan City, and Longlife Pharmaceutical Inc. on Benavidez Street, Binondo, Manila. By Tina G. Santos 12 July 2008 Read the full…
Read MoreA large majority of 365 Internet sites that advertise or sell controlled medications by mail are offering to supply the drugs without a proper prescription, according to a new study. The online trade is stoking the rising abuse of addictive and dangerous prescription drugs, the authors and federal officials say. Drugs offered online include generic versions of opiates like OxyContin,…
Read MoreThe proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people…
Read MoreEarlier this month, the Los Angels Times published a story that explored the extremely profitable relationship between spammers and drug counterfeiters. For some time now, spammers have made money by sending countless emails to the public and then charging the credit cards of those who responded for products which never existed. In some case, the spammers sold that credit card information to other criminals.
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