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A Chinese factory was the source of a fake chemical used in medicines that killled at least 100 patients, mainly children, after it was used to make cough medicine, NYT reports in an excellent 7-page investigation. Through a state-owned company, Taixing Glycerine sold diethylene glycol as pharmaceutical grade glycerine. Diethylene glycol is used in solvents and as an antitfreeze. When…
Read MoreMinister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy says counterfeit drugs on the local market is an issue and it is one that "must be a priority for us." Ramsammy said the ministry has been collaborating with local laboratories to test drugs and they have not found large numbers of counterfeit drugs. For the last year, he said, they found two cases…
Read MoreVANCOUVER — Shoddy pills from a bogus online pharmacy are to blame for the death of a 58-year-old woman from Vancouver Island, a coroner’s report says. Yesterday’s conclusion makes Marcia Bergeron the first clear-cut case of a death stemming from counterfeit drugs bought on the Internet, but it likely won’t be the last, said Rose Stanton, regional coroner for Vancouver…
Read MoreThe Union government will introduce a new Bill with severe penalties against makers and sellers of fake and spurious drugs in the next session of Parliament, as part of a package of five health and pharmaceutical legislations aimed at tightening regulations related to drug approvals, manufacturing, functioning of hospitals, practising doctors, diagnostic centres, and even paramedical staff in the country.…
Read MoreVANCOUVER/CKNW – A BC coroner has ruled a Quadra island woman who died after buying and ingesting a number of drugs she purchased on line suffered from cardiac arrhythmia brought on by metal toxicity. And the report highlights the dangers of buying drugs on line. Marcia Ann Bergeron was 58 years old. She is believed to have died just after…
Read MoreDubai Customs have confiscated AED5m ($1.4m) worth of counterfeit medicine at the city's Cargo Village, it announced yesterday. Customs inspectors at the cargo facility found around 556,000 fake Plavix pills – an anti-clotting drug used to treat heart ailments – packed in 20,000 boxes and shipped from the Mauritius islands, Ahmed Butti Ahmed, director general of Dubai Customs said at…
Read MoreDubai Customs has confiscated the largest quantity of counterfeit drugs worth Dh5 million from a shipment from Mauritius. Around 555,000 pills, usually prescribed for heart attack or stroke-prone patients, containing traces of white cement were seized from two containers. By Emmanuelle Landais3 July 2007 Read the full story at gulfnews.com.
Read MoreThe Food and Drug Administration cannot warn people enough about the possible dangers of buying medications online. Some Web sites sell medicine, such as prescription and over-the-counter drugs, that may not be safe to use and could put people's health at risk. The current system of federal and state safeguards for protecting consumers from using inappropriate or unsafe drugs has…
Read MoreSierra Leone's Pharmacy Board Friday destroyed over Le 500 million fake and counterfeit drugs. The destruction exercise took place at the Central Medical Stores compound, New England Ville in Freetown. The destruction was aimed at eradicating fake, substandard and counterfeit drugs nationwide. Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas noted that the exercise is another mile stone in the board's history,…
Read MoreA congressional staff briefing on Monday by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America addressed drug reimportation "in anticipation that lawmakers will try to legalize low-cost drug purchases from abroad by attaching it to must-pass legislation," CongressDaily reports. At the briefing, titled "Know the Threat Behind Importation," Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and…
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