Vatican Denounces Drug Counterfeiters

Agenzia Fides, the missionary press agency of the Vatican, has spoken out against counterfeit drugs and the approximated 700,000 people expected to die annually due to their pervasiveness. Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700,000 people a year. A large part of these victims are African. The World Health Organization (WHO)…

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Matrix Code Technology Joins Counterfeit Stoppers

  A new ‘track and trace’ technology is being developed to uniquely mark pharmaceutical products and improve traceability.   The technique will allow faster identification and resolution of any manufacturing quality problems but will also prove invaluable as an anti-counterfeit measure because the specific coding and validation systems are almost impossible to copy. This technology…

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Indian Cops Nab Counterfeit Drug Courier

Police in India recently arrested a man in possession of counterfeit drugs. Dharmender Singh was arrested at the Kidwai Nagar bus stand for allegedly dealing in counterfeit drugs, according to the Asian Age. The police say that Singh had a number of drugs that were marked with counterfeit labels of two famous pharmaceutical companies. According…

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German Prosecutors Find Suspect Drugs in Supply Chain

Germany is investigating dozens of pharmacies in the north of the country for suspected involvement in the distribution of illegal medicines, including counterfeits, reports securingpharma.com. Prosecutors have brought charges against one pharmacist from the Braunschweig region who is accused of handling €1.68m-worth. Pharmacies in Hamburg, Celle, Verden and Kiel are also being probed, reports the…

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Man Given Four Years for Illegal Online Pharmacy

A federal judge recently sentenced a man to four years in prison for his part in operating an illegal online pharmacy that distributed anabolic steroids to a number of high-profile individuals. J. Michael Bennet, a pharmacist, was one of five people found guilty earlier this year of running the online pharmacy, called Applied Pharmacy Services…

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Packaging Company Proposes Anti-Countefeiting Technology

AA packaging machinery manufacturer has proposed a new anti-counterfeiting technology that may help protect people from counterfeit drugs.   The proposed technology would place a serialized label on the side of the individual blister packs and also put a synchronized marking on the bottom of each drug container, according to Packaging Digest. The marking on…

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NAFDAC: Counterfeit Drug Dealers Moving to Nigeria’s Rural Areas

National authorities in Nigeria said they have detected a new strategy being used by counterfeit drug dealers. They are pushing their fake medicines in the country’s rural areas. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians that as they continue their crackdown on phony drug peddlers, the illicit trade…

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British Virgin Islands Vigilant for Counterfeit Drugs

Minister of Health and Social Development Honourable Dancia Penn delivered the seminar’s opening remarks and stressed the dangers of counterfeit drugs. She said that a community-wide effort would be needed to keep counterfeit drugs out.

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New Counterfeit Drug Identification Technology

  Researchers in Belgium recently uncovered a new method to identify counterfeit drugs.   A team of researchers from the Scientific Institute of Public Health in Brussels, Belgium, compared three different spectroscopic techniques to determine which was best for certain erectile dysfunction drugs, according to SecuringPharma.com. The three techniques examined were Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy…

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Web Company Accused of Registering Illegal Online Pharmacy Domain Names

A company that has registered 8 percent of the world’s website domain names has been accused of registering about one-third of all the world’s illegal online pharmacies’ websites. Critics are calling on Demand Media to end its registration of illegal online pharmacies, as well as saying it should stop some of its other controversial activities,…

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