April 30, 2008
GUANGZHOU: Five employees of Qiqihar No 2 Pharmaceutical Co Ltd were given jail terms ranging from four to seven Tuesday yesterday for producing and selling counterfeit drugs. Thirteen people at a hospital in Guangzhou died of kidney failure in April 2005 after being given drugs made by the Heilongjiang-based company.
The company's general manager Yin Jiade, deputy general managers Zhu Chuanhua and Guo Xingping, laboratory chief Chen Guifen, and chemical purchaser Niu Zhongren were all charged with "criminal offenses".
“F.D.A.’s working hypothesis is that this was intentional contamination, but this is not yet proven,” Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in written testimony given Tuesday.
April 29, 2008
April 27, 2008
April 25, 2008
Circulation of illegal medicines has reached alarming levels in the country, threatening both consumers and the pharmaceutical industries, according to an industry group
Presenting an estimate by the World Health Organization, Thierry Powis of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group (IPMG) said about 10 percent of traded medicines here were either illegally distributed or fake "The government so far has acknowledged about 1 to 1.5 percent," Powis said
April 24, 2008
Stephen McKernan, the director general of health, issued a specific warning about four products illegally promoted in Singapore for treating erectile dysfunction that had been found to contain dangerous levels of a prescription medicine used to treat diabetes.
April 22, 2008
But a Chinese official disputed the assertion that the contaminant found in the drug, heparin, caused any deaths and insisted that his country’s inspectors be allowed to inspect the American plant where the finished heparin vials were made.
Janet Woodcock, director of the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said that the contaminant has been traced to 12 different Chinese companies and has been found in heparin batches shipped to 11 nations, all of it from China.
April 15, 2008
AMMAN - Jordanian officials denied recent allegations brought by the Al-Watan Kuwaiti-based newspaper about confiscating $10 million value counterfeited cancer-related medications in the Palestinian territories bought from Jordan. These accusations have opened the door wide for discussions about counterfeited medicines in the Kingdom.
April 14, 2008
The pharmaceutical manufacturers committee representing the pharmaceutical industry at the Manufacturers Association of Israel said last week that sales of stolen, counterfeit and out of date pharmaceuticals for human as well as veterinary use was between NIS 100 million and NIS 130 million in 2007.
The trade in counterfeit medicine is flourishing around the world, bringing losses to the producers and posing a threat to patients' lives, industry representatives warned last week at a conference on safety in the pharmaceutical trade.
The global market for counterfeit medicine is growing by 13 percent annually and is expected to reach 65 (zł.222.5) billion in 2010, according to EU data. These products may constitute up to 10 percent of all medicines in developed countries and up to 50 percent in developing ones, the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute's data shows.
What can national governments and concerned individuals do to combat this growing menace? Nigeria offers a powerful model. Prior to 2002, over half the medicines traded in Nigeria were thought to be counterfeit. Today, that number is under 20 percent and falling, a remarkable reversal that owes a great deal to Dora Akunyili.
April 13, 2008
The mysterious problems with heparin from the factory and others like it - China's deadliest product quality scandal since Chinese cough syrup killed 93 people in Central America a year ago - dramatically illustrate the perils of shifting drug production offshore.
HOT on the heels of Power1 Walnut and the counterfeit Cialis comes two other illegal sexual enhancement drugs labelled as 'Santi Bovine Penis Erecting Capsule' (Santi) and Zhong Hua Niu Bian.
They are again made with prescription-only medicine meant to treat diabetes and erectile dysfunction. More interestingly, peddlers of such drugs have moved from red-light districts to the heartlands.
April 12, 2008
HYDERABAD: The next time somebody dies in a government hospital do not be sure that a disease or bad treatment has killed him. It could well be due to the administration of spurious and unchecked drugs.
Strange that it may seems, the Andhra Pradesh Health, Medical Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (APHMHIDC) has gone ahead and issued purchase orders to pharmaceutical companies, without even verifying their credentials, to supply medicines worth Rs 21 crore to government hospitals.
April 11, 2008
An SFDA spokesman said the authority would enhance its supervision over large and influential Internet portal sites involved in the false advertising or mailing of fake drugs to customers.
April 10, 2008
Yu Bohuai, a general manager of a Shanghai chemical company, had been purchasing fake drugs from a person named Xu Dong in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, at 5 yuan a pill, according to the Shanghai Second Intermediate People's Court.
That is one reason why the European arm of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC Europe) made the issue of counterfeited, diverted and/or mislabeled medicines a cornerstone of their recently-held 2008 seminar.
April 09, 2008
The image of China's pharmaceutical industry overseas has been tarnished by a number of incidents involving unregistered companies, she said.
The proposed law would give the minister of health far-reaching new powers to pull products off the shelf after a series of high-profile voluntary recalls of toxic toys, tainted food and contaminated drugs in the last year.
April 08, 2008
The agency has been investigating contamination of heparin made by the manufacturer Baxter International Inc., which it linked to 19 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions.
April 07, 2008
The lives of Britons are being put at risk by the multi-million pound trade in counterfeit drugs, a leading industry investigator warns today.
Graham Satchwell, a former director of security at GlaxoSmithKline, the drugs giant, said it was "likely" that British fatalities had already been caused by bogus medication imported into the country or bought over the internet.
April 06, 2008
Until recently the most infamous internationally known example of fake drug dealing was Graham Greene's fictional account of a British fake penicillin peddler who was eliminated in the sewers of postwar Vienna in The Third Man. Unfortunately, malevolent dealings in counterfeit drugs are very much a contemporary reality. Notorious recent real examples include neomycin eye drops and meningococcal vaccine made of tap water; paracetamol syrup made of industrial solvent; ampicillin consisting of turmeric; contraceptive pills made of wheat flour; and antimalarials, antibiotics, and snake antivenom containing no active ingredients.
April 05, 2008
The multi-billion-pound global trade in bogus medicines is responsible for an estimated half a million deaths a year. As Europe becomes an ever-more lucrative target for counterfeiters, Eric Clark meets the government agents and pharmaceutical company investigators who are taking the fight to the fakers
Half an hour before dawn, the semi-detached house, like the rest of the silent East Midlands town, is in darkness. Two investigators, search warrant at the ready, approach the front door, while a man with a battering ram takes up position. There has already been a 6am briefing session at the local police station, and the raid has a code name - Operation Mexico.
April 04, 2008
Prosecutors alleges that Xydeas was involved in the operation of Internet pharmacies which sold thousands of counterfeit, misbranded and unapproved prescription drugs each year to U.S. consumers.
April 03, 2008
April 02, 2008
April 01, 2008
MANUFACTURERS OF fake drugs who thought their nefarious activities would continue undetected would soon be laughing at the wrong side of their mouths.
This is because stringent measures are being adopted by relevant stakeholders in both the public and the private sectors to clamp-down on the activities of unscrupulous individuals whose actions have been the direct result of the emergence of counterfeit drugs on the Ghanaian market.
5 jailed for sale of counterfeit drugs
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.GUANGZHOU: Five employees of Qiqihar No 2 Pharmaceutical Co Ltd were given jail terms ranging from four to seven Tuesday yesterday for producing and selling counterfeit drugs. Thirteen people at a hospital in Guangzhou died of kidney failure in April 2005 after being given drugs made by the Heilongjiang-based company.
The company's general manager Yin Jiade, deputy general managers Zhu Chuanhua and Guo Xingping, laboratory chief Chen Guifen, and chemical purchaser Niu Zhongren were all charged with "criminal offenses".
By Qiu Quanlin
30 April 2008
Read the full story at chinadaily.com.
Posted by jclass at 11:52 PM
Heparin Contamination May Have Been Deliberate, F.D.A. Says
WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators believe that a contaminant detected in a crucial blood thinner that has caused 81 deaths was added deliberately, something the Food and Drug Administration has only hinted at previously.“F.D.A.’s working hypothesis is that this was intentional contamination, but this is not yet proven,” Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in written testimony given Tuesday.
By GARDINER HARRIS
30 April 2008
Read the full story at nytimes.com.
Posted by jclass at 01:56 PM
US FDA Officials Ask for Resources, Authorities to Improve Drug Safety
Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) say Congress must provide them with more resources and authorities to ensure the safety of imported drugs. A congressional hearing Tuesday included dramatic testimony by family members of people whose deaths are thought to have been caused by contaminated doses of the medication Heparin. More from VOA's Dan Robinson on Capitol Hill.
By Dan Robinson
29 April 2008
Read the full story at voanews.com.
Posted by jclass at 01:55 PM
Doctors Buying Illegally Imported Cancer Drugs, Whistleblower Lawsuit Says, Putting Patients at Risk
A whistleblower lawsuit has exposed an illegal scheme where doctors have purchased illegally imported cancer drugs as a way to cut their costs and boost their income. In doing so, the doctors risked the effectiveness of their cancer patients' treatment and defrauded the Medicare program.27 April 2008
Read the full story at medicalnewsservice.com.
Posted by jclass at 01:57 PM
COUNTERFEIT DRUG CIRCULATION ALARMING
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.Circulation of illegal medicines has reached alarming levels in the country, threatening both consumers and the pharmaceutical industries, according to an industry group
Presenting an estimate by the World Health Organization, Thierry Powis of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group (IPMG) said about 10 percent of traded medicines here were either illegally distributed or fake "The government so far has acknowledged about 1 to 1.5 percent," Powis said
25 April 2008
Read the full story at thejakartapost.com.
Posted by jclass at 12:34 AM
New Zealand authorities warn against buying drugs on internet
Wellington - New Zealand health officials warned Thursday against buying medicines on the internet, saying subquality or counterfeit drugs for erectile dysfunction had been intercepted entering the country from India, China and Thailand.Stephen McKernan, the director general of health, issued a specific warning about four products illegally promoted in Singapore for treating erectile dysfunction that had been found to contain dangerous levels of a prescription medicine used to treat diabetes.
24 April 2008
Read the full story at monstersandcritics.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:32 PM
The High Cost of Cheaper Drugs
Tainted heparin in 11 countries has caused the deaths of 81 patients, highlighting the potential danger of cheaply produced — sometimes counterfeit — imported medicines. Congress is holding multiple hearings on the tragedy, but it’s unlikely that they’ll draw the appropriate conclusion. All three presidential candidates support making drug importation easier to combat the “high cost of health care.” But they seldom acknowledge the inherent risk — and associated external costs — in such importation.
By Roger Bate
24 April 2008
Read the full story at nationalreview.com.
Posted by jclass at 12:41 AM
U.S. Identifies Tainted Heparin in 11 Countries
WASHINGTON — A contaminated blood thinner from China has been found in drug supplies in 11 countries, and federal officials said Monday they had discovered a clear link between the contaminant and severe reactions now associated with 81 deaths in the United States. Skip to next paragraph RSS FeedBut a Chinese official disputed the assertion that the contaminant found in the drug, heparin, caused any deaths and insisted that his country’s inspectors be allowed to inspect the American plant where the finished heparin vials were made.
By GARDINER HARRIS
22 April 2008
Read the full story at nytimes.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:05 PM
New Data Link Heparin Deaths to Chinese Batches, FDA Says
Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday they have new evidence that links hundreds of serious adverse reactions and scores of deaths among patients given the blood thinner heparin to a man-made contaminant introduced during production in China.Janet Woodcock, director of the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said that the contaminant has been traced to 12 different Chinese companies and has been found in heparin batches shipped to 11 nations, all of it from China.
By Marc Kaufman
22 April 2008
Read the full story at washingtonpost.com.
Posted by jclass at 02:15 PM
Unified Efforts Needed to Combat Counterfeit Drugs in Jordan – Experts Say
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.AMMAN - Jordanian officials denied recent allegations brought by the Al-Watan Kuwaiti-based newspaper about confiscating $10 million value counterfeited cancer-related medications in the Palestinian territories bought from Jordan. These accusations have opened the door wide for discussions about counterfeited medicines in the Kingdom.
By Sandra Halteh
15 April 2008
Read the full story at ag-ip-news.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:34 PM
Sale of counterfeit drugs and out of date pharmaceuticals in 2007 was NIS 100-130 million
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.The pharmaceutical manufacturers committee representing the pharmaceutical industry at the Manufacturers Association of Israel said last week that sales of stolen, counterfeit and out of date pharmaceuticals for human as well as veterinary use was between NIS 100 million and NIS 130 million in 2007.
14 April 2008
Read the full story at port2port.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:33 PM
Pharmaceuticals: Counterfeit Drugs
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.The trade in counterfeit medicine is flourishing around the world, bringing losses to the producers and posing a threat to patients' lives, industry representatives warned last week at a conference on safety in the pharmaceutical trade.
The global market for counterfeit medicine is growing by 13 percent annually and is expected to reach 65 (zł.222.5) billion in 2010, according to EU data. These products may constitute up to 10 percent of all medicines in developed countries and up to 50 percent in developing ones, the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute's data shows.
By Konrad Kiedrzyński
14 April 2008
Read the full story at wbj.pl.
Posted by jclass at 03:30 PM
Cracking Down on Killer Drugs: Dora Akunyili and the Nigerian Success Story
Counterfeit and substandard medicines pose an increasing threat to global health, especially in the developing world. They kill hundreds of thousands--maybe millions--every year, undermine incentives for research and development for new drugs, and are even beginning to infiltrate North American markets.What can national governments and concerned individuals do to combat this growing menace? Nigeria offers a powerful model. Prior to 2002, over half the medicines traded in Nigeria were thought to be counterfeit. Today, that number is under 20 percent and falling, a remarkable reversal that owes a great deal to Dora Akunyili.
14 April 2008
Read the full story at aei.org.
Posted by jclass at 08:47 AM
Heparin probe shows perils of offshore drug production
CHANGZHOU, China (AP) - On a dusty lane in east China, a small factory sitting amid strawberry and vegetable fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked to 62 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions in the U.S. and Germany.The mysterious problems with heparin from the factory and others like it - China's deadliest product quality scandal since Chinese cough syrup killed 93 people in Central America a year ago - dramatically illustrate the perils of shifting drug production offshore.
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
13 April 2008
Read the full story at komotv.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:32 PM
New killer counterfeit sexual enhancement pills hit market
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.HOT on the heels of Power1 Walnut and the counterfeit Cialis comes two other illegal sexual enhancement drugs labelled as 'Santi Bovine Penis Erecting Capsule' (Santi) and Zhong Hua Niu Bian.
They are again made with prescription-only medicine meant to treat diabetes and erectile dysfunction. More interestingly, peddlers of such drugs have moved from red-light districts to the heartlands.
By Ng Wan Ching
13 April 2008
Read the full story at asia1.com.sg.
Posted by jclass at 03:31 PM
Floodgates to counterfeit drugs opened
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.HYDERABAD: The next time somebody dies in a government hospital do not be sure that a disease or bad treatment has killed him. It could well be due to the administration of spurious and unchecked drugs.
Strange that it may seems, the Andhra Pradesh Health, Medical Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (APHMHIDC) has gone ahead and issued purchase orders to pharmaceutical companies, without even verifying their credentials, to supply medicines worth Rs 21 crore to government hospitals.
12 April 2008
Read the full story at timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:30 PM
China tightens scrutiny over illegal online drug sale
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has listed on-line drug sales as a priority target this year and strengthening crackdowns on false advertising of drug products, according to the food and drug watchdog on Thursday.An SFDA spokesman said the authority would enhance its supervision over large and influential Internet portal sites involved in the false advertising or mailing of fake drugs to customers.
11 April 2008
Read the full story at xinhuanet.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:41 PM
What went wrong? Heparin probe highlights challenges of regulating global drugs market
CHANGZHOU, China (AP) - On a dusty lane in east China, a small factory sitting amid strawberry and vegetable fields processes chemicals from pig guts into heparin, a commonly used blood thinner linked to 62 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions in the U.S. and Germany. The mysterious problems with heparin from the factory and others like it _ China's deadliest product quality scandal since Chinese cough syrup killed 93 people in Central America a year ago _ dramatically illustrate the perils of shifting drug production offshore.11 April 2008
Read the full story at pr-inside.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:28 PM
Man in Shanghai jailed for selling fake Viagra
A Shanghai court jailed a man two years for selling 14,030 fake Viagra tablets via the Internet on Thursday. He was also fined 150,000 yuan (21,428 U.S. dollars).Yu Bohuai, a general manager of a Shanghai chemical company, had been purchasing fake drugs from a person named Xu Dong in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, at 5 yuan a pill, according to the Shanghai Second Intermediate People's Court.
10 April 2008
Read the full story at xinhuanet.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:51 PM
IPEC Europe sets supply chain security high on the agenda
LONDON, April 10, 2008-The usual perception of counterfeit medicines is an illegal copy of a finished medicine slipped into the supply chain by illicit manufacturers. But the reality is far more complex and individual components, including excipients, are also vulnerable to counterfeiting.That is one reason why the European arm of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC Europe) made the issue of counterfeited, diverted and/or mislabeled medicines a cornerstone of their recently-held 2008 seminar.
10 April 2008
Read the full story at pharmalive.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:29 PM
Tighter controls on drugs firms
Measures will be introduced before the end of the year to better control the supply of ingredients for medicines, especially those produced by chemical firms that have crossed over into the drugs market, Yan Jiangying, spokeswoman for the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), said Tuesday.The image of China's pharmaceutical industry overseas has been tarnished by a number of incidents involving unregistered companies, she said.
By Shan Juan
9 April 2008
Read the full story at chinadaily.com.cn.
Posted by jclass at 03:58 PM
New consumers' bill pledged
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced "sweeping" new legislation yesterday to protect consumers from unsafe products and tainted food and drugs, and warned companies that care more about their profits than their customers will face "severe" punishment.The proposed law would give the minister of health far-reaching new powers to pull products off the shelf after a series of high-profile voluntary recalls of toxic toys, tainted food and contaminated drugs in the last year.
SARAH SCHMIDT and MEAGAN FITZPATRICK
9 April 2008
Read the full story at canada.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:44 PM
FDA Links More Deaths to Blood Thinner
The Food and Drug Administration has tripled the number of deaths it attributes to side effects of the blood thinner heparin, which triggered a massive recall earlier this year.The agency has been investigating contamination of heparin made by the manufacturer Baxter International Inc., which it linked to 19 deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions.
8 April 2008
Read the full story at washingtonpost.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:45 PM
Lives 'put at risk' by growing counterfeit drug trade
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.The lives of Britons are being put at risk by the multi-million pound trade in counterfeit drugs, a leading industry investigator warns today.
Graham Satchwell, a former director of security at GlaxoSmithKline, the drugs giant, said it was "likely" that British fatalities had already been caused by bogus medication imported into the country or bought over the internet.
By Kate Devlin
7 April 2008
Read the full story at telegraph.co.uk.
Posted by jclass at 03:43 PM
Murder by counterfeit drugs
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.Until recently the most infamous internationally known example of fake drug dealing was Graham Greene's fictional account of a British fake penicillin peddler who was eliminated in the sewers of postwar Vienna in The Third Man. Unfortunately, malevolent dealings in counterfeit drugs are very much a contemporary reality. Notorious recent real examples include neomycin eye drops and meningococcal vaccine made of tap water; paracetamol syrup made of industrial solvent; ampicillin consisting of turmeric; contraceptive pills made of wheat flour; and antimalarials, antibiotics, and snake antivenom containing no active ingredients.
6 April 2008
Read the full story at bmj.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:42 PM
Counterfeit drugs: the pills that kill
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.The multi-billion-pound global trade in bogus medicines is responsible for an estimated half a million deaths a year. As Europe becomes an ever-more lucrative target for counterfeiters, Eric Clark meets the government agents and pharmaceutical company investigators who are taking the fight to the fakers
Half an hour before dawn, the semi-detached house, like the rest of the silent East Midlands town, is in darkness. Two investigators, search warrant at the ready, approach the front door, while a man with a battering ram takes up position. There has already been a 6am briefing session at the local police station, and the raid has a code name - Operation Mexico.
5 April 2008
Read the full story at telegraph.co.uk.
Posted by jclass at 03:41 PM
Greek national arrested for reportedly selling counterfeit drugs online
DENVER - A Greek national has been indicted on charges of selling counterfeit prescriptions through Internet pharmacies. Gergios Xydeas, 47, was before the U.S. District Court in Denver Friday for a detention hearing after a three-year investigation of his pharmaceutical sales operation.Prosecutors alleges that Xydeas was involved in the operation of Internet pharmacies which sold thousands of counterfeit, misbranded and unapproved prescription drugs each year to U.S. consumers.
4 April 2008
Read the full story at 9news.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:42 PM
Physicians Coalition Partner to FDA Counterfeit Alert Network
The Physicians Coalition for Injectable Safety, an alliance of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (AAFPRS) and the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASOPRS), announces their partnership to the U.S. FDA Counterfeit Alert Network. The Coalition is the first organization accepted into the Network whose member physicians are surgeons providing cosmetic treatments.3 April 2008
Read the full story at earthtimes.org.
Posted by jclass at 03:40 PM
Indiana Adopts Legislation to Combat Illegitimate Online Pharmacies, Protect Residents From Counterfeit Drugs
Ordering prescription drugs online can be safe and convenient when patients use legitimate online pharmacies, but it is all too easy for patients to find themselves the recipients of counterfeit drugs from dishonest Web sites. The vast number of Web sites offering prescription drugs puts patients in "buyer beware" situations as it is often difficult for them to know if the site they are buying from is legitimate. While obtaining drugs from Internet sites that do not require prescriptions or other standard safety measures may be convenient for consumers, it can also be deadly.2 April 2008
Read the full story at earthtimes.org.
Posted by jclass at 03:39 PM
War On Counterfeit Drugs Takes Off
The proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the global market and easy availability via online pharmacies is an increasing problem. The makers of counterfeit drugs have enjoyed and profited from loopholes in a system designed to deliver healthy medicines to those in need. The rising cost of prescription medications and the ubiquitous presence of online and overseas pharmacies means more people than ever are threatened by these counterfeiting operations.MANUFACTURERS OF fake drugs who thought their nefarious activities would continue undetected would soon be laughing at the wrong side of their mouths.
This is because stringent measures are being adopted by relevant stakeholders in both the public and the private sectors to clamp-down on the activities of unscrupulous individuals whose actions have been the direct result of the emergence of counterfeit drugs on the Ghanaian market.
1 April 2008
Read the full story at modernghana.com.
Posted by jclass at 03:39 PM