Archive for September 2011
US and Russian Health Orgs Pledge Cooperation Against Counterfeits
United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation on September 22, 2011 to establish a process for the organizations to collaborate to improve drug quality internationally. At a signing ceremony in New York, Dr. V. I. Skvortsova, deputy minister of healthcare…
[...]Excerpt from Partnership for Safe Medicine’s 2010 Interchange
Highlights from the Partnership For Safe Medicine’s 2010 Interchange included Rick Roberts telling the story of his life-threatening brush with counterfeit medications straight from his own local pharmacy.
[...]Rick Roberts, a counterfeit drug victim, spoke at the 2010 Interchange
Canadian Police Warn Residents of Counterfeit Medicines Sold Online
Newfoundland and Labrador police are warning local residents not to purchase medications from unlicensed online vendors. Says Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt Boyd Merrill, “The fake pill industry… has sales in the billions of dollars and people in Newfoundland and Labrador are getting scammed as much as the rest of the world,” reports the CBC…
[...]FDA Deputy Commissioner Deborah Autor
Partnership for Safe Medicines Interchange Speaker Announced: FDA’s Deborah Autor
Deborah Autor, Deputy Commissioner for Global Regulatory Operations and Policy for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will speak at the 2nd annual Partnership for Safe Medicine’s Interchange on October 27, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Autor leads a Directorate newly created in July 2011 which includes the Office of Regulatory…
[...]Medicine Counterfeiting Major Obstacle to World Health
”Drug counterfeiting is a major obstacle,” to one-third of the world’s population that would seek essential medicines, said Dr. Paul Orhii at a workshop for health correspondents. Dr. Paul Orhii, Director-General of the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said that 270 million people in Africa lack access to real…
[...]Partnership for Safe Medicines Announces 2011-2012 Alsberg Fellowship Recipient
The Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) today announced that Timothy K. Mackey, MAS, has been named the 2011-2012 Carl L. Alsberg, MD, Fellow for Safe Medicines. Established in honor of former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Carl L. Alsberg, MD, the fellowship provides a stipend to support research in drug safety. Mackey is in…
[...]Counterfeit Botox Suspected in Shanghai Beauty Salons
Experts estimate that 80% of cosmetic injections in Shanghai are suspect. At a medical conference in Shanghai, experts warned that cosmetic injections, such as Botox and dermal fillers, as well as skin whitening products, purchased and injected at beauty salons and unlicensed clinics are very likely to be counterfeit. The popularity of cosmetic injections is…
[...]Ukraine Makes Medicine Counterfeiting Criminal
Ukraine has adopted laws that criminalize the manufacture and sale of counterfeit medication. With a passing vote of 72% of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian parliament, the criminal code was amended with an article called “Medicine Counterfeiting or the Traffkcing of Counterfeit Medicine, reported the Kyiv Post. The law penalizes the manufacturers as well as resellers…
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