Archive for June 2006
Nigeria: Fake Drugs: NAFDAC Blacklists Onitsha Market
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has charged pharmaceutical companies operating within or outside Nigeria to discontinue supply of pharmaceutical drugs to Onitsha market in Anambra State. According to statement signed in Abuja by Mr. Abubakar Jimoh, head of media and public relations, the directive follows fresh indications from samples…
[...]Cyveillance Outlines Best Practices for Combating Illegal Online Pharmaceutical Distribution
ARLINGTON, Va. –(Business Wire)– June 19, 2006 — Cyveillance, the leading provider of online risk monitoring and management solutions, today announced the availability of "Combating Illegal Online Distribution of Pharmaceuticals: Best Practices for the Pharmaceutical Industry," a new research paper available at: www.cyveillance.com/pharma. The Wall Street Journal reports that illegal sales cost the pharmaceutical industry…
[...]US and EU pledge to take action over fake goods
The US and Europe will on Tuesday pledge to take joint action to stem the world's swelling tide of fake goods… By Andrew Bounds18 June 2006 Read the full story at ft.com.
[...]Targeting Counterfeit Drugs in Uganda
STATE GOVERNMENT POISED TO STAMP OUT FAKE DRUGS
Fake drugs could kill
Five arrested in fake drug raids in UK
Police swooped on a number of addresses across the UK this morning, seizing what are believed to be fake and illegal drugs and making several arrests, as part of a concerted campaign against medicine counterfeiters. Four people in London and one in West Yorkshire were arrested as a result of the raids, which uncovered caches…
[...]La mort tait dans le mdicament
Police arrest 17 in alleged fake drugs gang
Police have cracked a ring involving at least 26 people, which they allege has been a major dealer in counterfeit pharmaceuticals in Fuyang City, east China's Anhui Province. In a joint operation with the city's food and drug administration, police arrested 17 alleged members of the ring and seized 339 items of counterfeit drugs worth…
[...]Expired medicine prescribed
KUWAIT: A citizen recently told Kuwait local daily, Al-Anba, that when he took his sick baby son to the paediatric department at Farwaniya hospital he was prescribed cough syrup by the hospital's pharmacy that had expired over two months earlier. The man said he could not believe his eyes as he got the medicine from…
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