New Delhi: The US may have busted a major Internet racket selling drugs with its base at Agra, but the business of producing and marketing fake medicines has reached alarming proportions in India. 4/25/2005 IANS Read the full story at thepeninsularqatar.com.

Jefferson City, Mo. /PRNewswire/ – infoZine – In response to former Governor Holden's decision to allow Missouri to the join the I-SaveRx importation program, the Missouri Pharmacy Association encourages legislators to carefully review the new findings in an importation report recently conducted by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Upon examination of the report, which is entitled "Examination and…

One of Europe's most respected voices on pharmaceutical fraud today urged a key Senate Committee to learn from the European Union's mixed experience in importing drugs and warned that U.S. policymakers must fully understand how drug counterfeiters can exploit the opening of borders. By Jim Kouri, CPP Apr 25, 2005 Read the full story at michnews.com.

Mumbai, April 24 : The next time you receive e-mail with subject lines screaming "cheaper Viagra directly from the maker" or "original Valium delivered anonymously" don't just dismiss them as spam. Read the full story at teamlink.net.

AGRA/NEW DELHI: On July 16, 2003, Dr Brij Bhushan Bansal posted an advertisement on the Internet, introducing himself as a wholesale distributor and supplier of generic and branded medicines manufactured by top pharmaceutical companies of India. Saturday April 23 2005 Read the full story at newindpress.com.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressmen Greg Walden (R-OR) and Jim Davis (D-FL) today reintroduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would protect online consumers from potentially unsafe prescription drugs purchased from Internet pharmacies. Saturday, April 23, 2005 Read the full story at bend.com.

A great deal of current information reveals that importing prescription drugs into the United States is not sound policy. Prescription drug costs in America are unquestionably high and importation has been promoted by many as the solution to the problem. It is not. Joe Bell April 22, 2005 Read the full story at opinioneditorials.com.

DES MOINES — The House approved a bill that would make it illegal in Iowa to manufacture counterfeit prescription drugs or to sell them. By DAVID PITT, Associated Press Writer Friday, April 22, 2005 Read the full story at wcfcourier.com.

An illegal pharmaceutical distribution and global money laundering syndicate in Australia has been closed down after Australian Federal Police raided properties in Perth as part of an international crackdown. 21:44 AEST Thu Apr 21 2005 Read the full story at ninemsn.com.au.

Last week, N. Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced charges against several of drug traffickers who illegally supplied narcotics and other highly addictive controlled substances over the Internet without prescriptions. Apr 20, 2005 Read the full story at govtech.net.