Archive for 2006
Are Bad Drugs Coming to a Pharmacy Near You?
In "The Third Man," the brilliant, shadowy, 1949 film, Orson Welles' character, Harry Lime, is a morally bankrupt, cynical racketeer and dealer of black-market, diluted penicillin. Purveyors of fake or diluted drugs are no less detestable today than they were six decades ago, but the business has grown to frightening proportions. The highly professional and…
[...]Raid in Aminabad medicine market
LUCKNOW: Finally the district health officials woke upto reports in the media about the circulation of spurious drugs in the state capital. A team of drug control authorities and police personnel raided the wholesale medicine market in Aminabad and took random samples to check the authenticity of the drugs. The drugs have been sent to…
[...]SC to resume hearing of spurious drugs case today
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will resume today (Monday) the hearing of a suo motu case and review the progress of the Health Ministry in curbing the menace of spurious drugs in the country as the ministry will submit its report to the apex court regarding measures, it has so far taken to check the menace.…
[...]Drug giant will sell direct to beat the counterfeiters
Fake medical kits racket busted
FOLLOWING a police inquiry, a principal supplier of medical kits — used for testing for infections like HIV, hepatitis, malaria and others — was charged with tampering the manufacturing and expiry dates of the kits. These kits with tampered labels of expiry dates were reportedly supplied to government hospitals, blood banks and even private retail…
[...]Spurious drug unit detected
Police on Monday night unearthed a spurious syrup factory and seized 5,000 bottles of addictive phensidyl syrup from Porahati Bazaar in the Keraniganj area of the capital. 27 September 2006 Read the full story at gulf-times.com.
[...]Co-founder of online drug industry scales back after counterfeit allegations
WINNIPEG (CP) – A Manitoba co-founder of the multimillion-dollar online pharmacy industry is scaling back his business. RxNorth.com, owned by Andrew Strempler, has turned over its dispensing operation to CanadaDrugs.com, the largest player in the industry. 27 September 2006 Read the full story at cbc.ca.
[...]Globaler Anstieg von Arzneimittelflschungen
Allein im Jahr 2005 wurden nach Angaben der Food and Drug Administration (FDA) http://www.fda.gov weltweit geflschte Arzneimittel in einer Hhe von ca. 35 Mrd. Dollar gehandelt. Bis 2010 rechnet das amerikanische Center for Medicines in the Public Interest sogar mit einem Anstieg dieses Volumens auf rund 75 Mrd. Dollar. Auch Europa wird zunehmend davon betroffen.…
[...]South Africa: Authorities Rush to Control Illegal Medicines Boom
Illegal medicines might be stealing their way onto the South African market while health and Medicines Control Council (MCC) officials try to fast-track monitoring the safety and efficacy of these drugs. The MCC estimated about 30,000 medicines were registered with it, of which only a few were natural or homeopathic remedies, also known as complementary…
[...]Court rejects ‘unlawful medicines seizure’
The Cape High Court has rejected an application by a local pharmaceuticals company claiming a department of health seizure of medicines at their premises was unlawful. Tokai-based BCC Pharmaceuticals made this claim in an application against the minister of health, the Medicines Control Council and the minister of safety and security. By Fatima Schroeder 25…
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