Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili has stated that global sales of counterfeit drugs estimated at $32billion has dealt a crippling blow of $46billion annual loss to the pharmaceutical industry world wide. Akunyili stated this yesterday while addressing hundreds of African Regulatory Heads and officials who converged at Indaba Conference…

About 80 people were arrested and fake drugs worth more than N300,000 were confiscated by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) in Borno State last year. This revelation was made by the state coordinator of the agency, Pharmacist Sabo Adamu while briefing newsmen in his office in Maiduguri. He said the agency is doing everything possible…

One man has died and nine others have been admitted to hospital – one in critical condition – after they were believed to have taken impotence drugs which were fake or contained unregistered medicines. The Department of Health said 10 men have been admitted since December 11. A 53-year-old man died on January 31 in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. By Nickkita…

Dubai: Counterfeiting remains a growing problem in various economies today because government officials are not motivated enough to wage an all-out war against it. This point was made on Sunday by David Benjamin, co-chair of the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy at the Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Dubai. By Cleofe Maceda 4 February…

BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) — China's food and drug watchdog has vowed to intensify crackdown on on-line illegal drug sales to enforce its supervision of Internet-based drug distribution. Shao Mingli, State Food and Drug Administration director, revealed at a national food and drug supervision meeting Thursday that his administration will cooperate with other departments and administrations in striking on-line illegal…

Every day, counterfeit prescription drugs, purses, watches, shoes, software, movies and music come into the U.S. And the problem is getting worse. To combat counterfeiting, more than 400 companies worldwide have created technology systems to authenticate goods, and many of them are small startups, said Ed Dietrich, director of the Americas for Reconnaissance International, based in Hood River, Ore. By…