TORONTO, June 30 /CNW/ – The Ontario Pharmacists' Association (OPA) has offered its qualified support for plans announced yesterday by the Canadian Minister of Health to curb the cross-border trade in prescription drugs. The OPA has been a longtime opponent of allowing Canada's finite drug supply to be diverted to the United States, and of the practices of cross-border internet…

TORONTO – Canada's health minister threatened Wednesday to overhaul the country's regulations on exporting prescription drugs, saying Canada would no longer be a cheap "drugstore for the United States." By Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press 6/30/05 Read the full story at lsj.com.

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has intercepted large quantities of pharmaceutical products concealed in several packs of baby clothes. Yemi Akinsuyi, Lagos June 27, 2005 Read the full story at allafrica.com.

OTTAWA, June 27 (Reuters) – Canada will shortly announce a ban on bulk sales of drugs to the United States as a way of reining in Internet pharmacies that sell cheap medicine to Americans, the Winnipeg Free Press said on Monday. Source: Reuters 27 Jun 2005 Read the full story at alertnet.com.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will soon announce measures to clamp down on Internet pharmacies that send cheap medicine to the United States, often without Canadian doctors seeing the patients, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said on Thursday. REUTERS Thursday, June 23, 2005 Read the full story at metronews.ca.

Millions of Americans will go shopping today and judge whether to buy that handbag or pair of jeans that looks authentic but seems to be too cheap to be genuine. Counterfeit products of all sorts are commonly on sale in towns across the USA. If those jeans turn out to be fake then so what? The worst that can happen…

HAMILTON (CP) – Police seized an unknown quantity of counterfeit heart medication from a local pharmacy Wednesday in what investigators say could be part of a disturbing and growing trend in medicinal counterfeiting in Canada. Canadian Press Friday, June 17, 2005 Read the full story at canada.com.

Counterfeiting is one of the biggest issues relating to brand protection that consumer product companies and brand owners face. 17 June 2005 Read the full story at legalweek.com.

PROVIDENCE — The Health Department's proposal to require Canadian pharmacies to obtain $5 million in liability insurance if they want a state license sets the bar so high that it would undermine a new state law, several speakers said at a hearing yesterday. BY FELICE J. FREYER, Journal Medical Writer Thursday, June 16, 2005 Read the full story at projo.com.