Archive for July 2007
China Executes Former Drug Regulator
Counterfeit Cough Medicine Traced To Chinese Factory
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…
[...]Tackling counterfeit drugs is priority – Ramsammy
Minister 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…
[...]China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption
Counterfeit drugs caused woman’s death, coroner concludes
VANCOUVER — 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…
[...]Govt targets fake drugs makers with new Bill
The 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…
[...]Woman dies after buying and ingesting drugs she purchased on line
VANCOUVER/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…
[...]Fake medicines worth Dh5m confiscated
Dubai Customs seize fake meds
Dubai 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…
[...]Counterfeit ‘life-saving drugs’ seized from Mauritius shipment
Dubai 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.
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