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May 19, 2025: Investigations raise questions about product safety at a Texas compounding company
Exposes in the Houston Chronicle and Endpoints News examined Empower Pharmacy’s safety record. A grand jury indicted a Chinese company and three of its employees for pill press and counterfeit die mold sales.
[...]May 12, 2025: FDA will expand unannounced foreign facility inspections, it says
The FDA wants to ensure that domestic and foreign companies receive the same level of regulatory oversight.
Catch up on research PSM released about medicines imported from unregistered sources.
[...]Prescription Drug Freight Fraud Report, May 2025
What if your blood thinners were made in an unverified location in Colombia? In March 2025, dozens of pharmaceutical shipments entered the U.S. that were manufactured in places no one would expect.
[...]May 4, 2025: New study suggests more adverse events associated with compounded GLP-1s than standard formulations
New research shows a correlation between compounded weight loss and diabetes injectables and increased adverse events. GIlead Sciences is suing another New York City pharmacy that allegedly sold counterfeit HIV medicine.
[...]ALERT: New FDA Warning Letter to www.thesafepills.org
The FDA has issued a warning to the operators of the online pharmacy www.thesafepills.org for illegally selling unapproved and misbranded opioid medications, including tapentadol products marketed as Aspadol and Typendol. These unauthorized drugs, sold without a prescription, pose significant health risks such as overdose, addiction, and even death.
[...]April 28, 2025: SafeChain Solutions executive admits to criminal wire fraud in HIV drug diversion case
One of SafeChain’s three owners pleaded guilty. The company collected secondhand HIV medicines from patients and resold them to licensed U.S. pharmacies, forging paperwork to make them look legitimate.
[...]April 21, 2025: Kentucky doctor pleads guilty after injecting patients with semaglutide from unregistered sources
A Kentucky doctor treated weight loss patients with research chemicals; CBP seized 90,000 alprazolam pills being smuggled into the U.S.
[...]FDA Alert: Counterfeit Ozempic found in U.S. Supply Chain
The FDA and Novo Nordisk are warning the public about counterfeit Ozempic injections circulating in the U.S. drug supply chain. The falsified products, labeled with lot number PAR0362 and serial numbers beginning with 51746517, were seized by the FDA on April 9, 2025. Their contents and safety are unverified and pose serious health risks.
[...]New initiative: Best practices for online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces
PSM is seeking input on developing a set of best practices to reduce sales of counterfeit and diverted medicines on online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces.
[...]April 14, 2025: Regulators announce a third instance of counterfeit Ozempic injections in the U.S. drug supply
The FDA announced that it had seized counterfeit Ozempic injections on April 9. PSM testified at a congressional hearing.
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