Archive for 2008
F-Secure unveils the names the illegal online pharmacy
Seven men are prosecuted in Sweden for running an illegal online pharmacy. These men are accused for running several web shops selling prescription drugs without a prescription. They started operations in 200s3 and generated several million Euros in revenues until they were shut down in 2007. By this time they had sold drugs to 65…
[...]Nigeria: Global Sales of Counterfeit Drugs Hit $32bn
Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili has stated that global sales of counterfeit drugs estimated at $32billion has dealt a crippling blow of $46billion annual loss to the pharmaceutical industry world wide. Akunyili stated this yesterday while addressing hundreds of African Regulatory Heads and officials…
[...]Nigeria: 80 Arrested for Fake Drugs in Borno – Nafdac
About 80 people were arrested and fake drugs worth more than N300,000 were confiscated by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) in Borno State last year. This revelation was made by the state coordinator of the agency, Pharmacist Sabo Adamu while briefing newsmen in his office in Maiduguri. He said the…
[...]Alarm over killer impotence drugs
One man has died and nine others have been admitted to hospital – one in critical condition – after they were believed to have taken impotence drugs which were fake or contained unregistered medicines. The Department of Health said 10 men have been admitted since December 11. A 53-year-old man died on January 31 in…
[...]Officials lack motivation to fight counterfeiting
Dubai: Counterfeiting remains a growing problem in various economies today because government officials are not motivated enough to wage an all-out war against it. This point was made on Sunday by David Benjamin, co-chair of the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy at the Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Dubai.…
[...]China launches national campaign against on-line sales of illegal drugs
BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) — China's food and drug watchdog has vowed to intensify crackdown on on-line illegal drug sales to enforce its supervision of Internet-based drug distribution. Shao Mingli, State Food and Drug Administration director, revealed at a national food and drug supervision meeting Thursday that his administration will cooperate with other departments and…
[...]Keeping it real
Every day, counterfeit prescription drugs, purses, watches, shoes, software, movies and music come into the U.S. And the problem is getting worse. To combat counterfeiting, more than 400 companies worldwide have created technology systems to authenticate goods, and many of them are small startups, said Ed Dietrich, director of the Americas for Reconnaissance International, based…
[...]Be very careful when buying drugs online
You should definitely be concerned. If you purchase prescription drugs online, be sure to deal only with a legitimate Web pharmacy. More on this shortly. In its most recent warning on counterfeit drugs, the FDA referred to a network of 24 online sources that appear to be operated from outside the United States. Some consumers…
[...]Death toll from contaminated drug rises to 14 in S China
GUANGZHOU, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) — A 37-year-old man has died from the effects of a contaminated drug given to patients at a south China hospital almost two years ago, bringing the death toll to 14. The latest victim died on Wednesday afternoon at the No. 3 Zhongshan Hospital in Guangzhou, capital of southern China's Guangdong…
[...]Parallel Trade Considerable Risk to Patient Safety
The European Commission is to prioritise and speed up moves to deal with the issue of counterfeit drugs in parallel trade and will launch a legislative initiative on the issue after the summer break, Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen has announced in the European Parliament. At the end of December 2006, the Commission began a…
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