Archive for 2007
Fake Viagra worth P35m seized
Killer pills: Banned but available
2 Japanese men nabbed for fake drugs
Thirty-six-year-old Yuya Ohama and 44-year-old Takahiro Ogawa were arrested yesterday at a luxury Sukhumvit condominium. Police also found 20,000 "Cialis" pills. Police said the pair was selling packages of the drug for Bt20,000 on the Internet. The price works out to about Bt500 for each pill. 18 February 2007 Read the full story at nationmultimedia.com.
[...]FDA Alerts Consumers to Unsafe, Misrepresented Drugs Purchased Over the Internet
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has become aware that a number of Americans who placed orders for specific drug products over the Internet (Ambien, Xanax, Lexapro, and Ativan), instead received a product that, according to preliminary analysis, contains haloperidol, a powerful anti-psychotic drug. Reports show several consumers in the United States have sought emergency…
[...]Two N.C. men plead guilty in counterfeit Internet drugs case
ATLANTA Two North Carolina men pleaded guilty today in Atlanta federal charges stemming from a scheme to sell counterfeit prescription drugs over the Internet. The U-S Attorney's Office says 40-year-old David A- Brady of Pinehurst pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud individuals seeking prescription drugs and to introduce into interstate commerce unapproved new drugs and…
[...]Are Counterfeit Drugs Finding Their Way to Your Home?
NEW YORK, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — February 15, 2007 — Up to 40 million of the prescription bottles handed out in the U.S. today are filled with substances that aren't what they claim to be, according to this Sunday's issue of PARADE magazine. "Drug counterfeiting," a business that has expanded in the last five…
[...]Federal requirements for drug pedigrees do not affect veterinarians
Beijing police raid bogus Viagra factory
BEIJING — Beijing police have raided an underground factory making fake Viagra pills, the anti-impotence drug, state media reported Wednesday. Xinhua News Agency said police found nearly 2,000 fake copies of the distinctive blue pills in the factory in eastern Beijing, along with machines, packing materials and trade mark logos, all worth an estimated US$320,000.…
[...]Russia listed second in world’s rating of counterfeit medicines distribution
Russia has been listed second in the world's rating of counterfeit medicines distribution. More than 26,300 facts of storage and sale of low-quality medicines, about 2,000 facts of counterfeit medicines sale, and 1,500 facts of medicines sale with keeping time expired were revealed as part of the decade action "Pharmacologist", Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Tchekalin…
[...]China to take aim at fake, dangerous drugs: official
China will step up its battle against fake and dangerous drugs, deepening a probe into pharmaceutical production following a scandal involving a former senior safety official, state media said on Friday. The government will review production licenses for 170,000 drugs, focusing on those given out between 1999 and 2002, the official China Daily cited Vice…
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