FDA Alerts Consumers to Unsafe, Misrepresented Drugs Purchased Over the Internet

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has become aware that a number of Americans who placed orders for specific drug products over the Internet (Ambien, Xanax, Lexapro, and Ativan), instead received a product that, according to preliminary analysis, contains haloperidol, a powerful anti-psychotic drug. Reports show several consumers in the United States have sought emergency…

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Two N.C. men plead guilty in counterfeit Internet drugs case

ATLANTA Two North Carolina men pleaded guilty today in Atlanta federal charges stemming from a scheme to sell counterfeit prescription drugs over the Internet. The U-S Attorney's Office says 40-year-old David A- Brady of Pinehurst pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud individuals seeking prescription drugs and to introduce into interstate commerce unapproved new drugs and…

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Are Counterfeit Drugs Finding Their Way to Your Home?

NEW YORK, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — February 15, 2007 — Up to 40 million of the prescription bottles handed out in the U.S. today are filled with substances that aren't what they claim to be, according to this Sunday's issue of PARADE magazine. "Drug counterfeiting," a business that has expanded in the last five…

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Beijing police raid bogus Viagra factory

BEIJING — Beijing police have raided an underground factory making fake Viagra pills, the anti-impotence drug, state media reported Wednesday. Xinhua News Agency said police found nearly 2,000 fake copies of the distinctive blue pills in the factory in eastern Beijing, along with machines, packing materials and trade mark logos, all worth an estimated US$320,000.…

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Russia listed second in world’s rating of counterfeit medicines distribution

Russia has been listed second in the world's rating of counterfeit medicines distribution. More than 26,300 facts of storage and sale of low-quality medicines, about 2,000 facts of counterfeit medicines sale, and 1,500 facts of medicines sale with keeping time expired were revealed as part of the decade action "Pharmacologist", Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Tchekalin…

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China to take aim at fake, dangerous drugs: official

China will step up its battle against fake and dangerous drugs, deepening a probe into pharmaceutical production following a scandal involving a former senior safety official, state media said on Friday. The government will review production licenses for 170,000 drugs, focusing on those given out between 1999 and 2002, the official China Daily cited Vice…

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6 tried in China for Tamiflu piracy

Six people have gone on trial in Shanghai on charges of making an unlicensed version of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu, newspapers and the court announced Friday. Lead defendant Wang Xun is accused of illegally purchasing the Tamiflu formula for $20,000 and then joining with others to pirate and sell the ersatz drug, Shanghai's Youth…

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Nigeria: NAFDAC Impounds N8 Million Fake Drugs

National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has impounded some quantities of fake and substandard drugs worth over N8 million. Similarly, the agency is questioning two suspects, Mr. Onyebuchi Okeke, an Idumota -based trader and Chief Nicholas Okeke the landlord of the premises used for the storage of the drugs in connection…

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Man suspected of selling fake Viagra in Beersheba

An elderly Beersheba resident was arrested by police Thursday on suspicion that he was operating an illegal business in fake Viagra pills. Detectives from the Southern District's Fraud Squad noted an advertisement in a local newspaper which was offering would-be customers the sought-after drug. The detectives made contact with the "salesman" and made an appointment…

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