Policy/Enforcement News
Argentinian Federal Judges Continue Counterfeit Medicine Investigation
Argentinian authorities are continuing their two year investigation into the fake drug syndicate that infiltrated the Argentinian workers’ unions.
[...]Fake Drugs Sold Like Peanuts
Nigerian police intercepted a pharmacist storing fake medicines in plastic buckets, including ones that had not been legitimately produced in more than nine years.
[...]Mailed Drugs Substituted with Fakes
Law enforcement is investigating what appears to be theft and substitution of medicine mailed by a Veterans Administration pharmacy to a Petersburg, Virginia patient.
[...]Online Animal Med Sales To be Regulated in Britain
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate announced that in April 2012 that the sales of veterinary medicines over the internet will be more tightly controlled in Britain.
[...]Drug Thieves Arrested in Lagos
Nigerian police have arrested two men for stealing money and medicine from a pharmaceutical company in Lagos. The two men allegedly broke into Remson Investment Nigeria Limited in Lagos and stole N470,500 in cash and approximately N600,000 (US$4,000) in pharmaceutical products. The police have arrested Bishop Godsent, 34, as the recipient of the stolen drugs…
[...]Bangkok Police Bear Down on Drug Counterfeiters
Bangkok police are focusing on deadly counterfeit items, like fake drugs, in 2011.
[...]Madras High Court Upholds Spurious Drug Sellers Detention
The Madras High Court upheld the detention of 13 people allegedly involved in selling spurious drugs, some fake and some expired, under the Goondas Act. In Chennai, India, the Madras High Court, one of the three high courts of India, justices heard a petition from 13 defendants accused of re-selling expired medicines. The Goondas Act…
[...]NAFDAC Finds Stores of Fake Antibiotics and Others
On December 23, 2010, officials from the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) closed down a pharmacy in Abeokuta, the largest city and capital of Ogun State in southwest Nigeria, after identifying counterfeit medicines with a handheld machine. During an unannounced and random check on pharmacies and medicine stores…
[...]Phnom Penh Reports Illegal Pharmacy Crackdown
The Cambodian Ministry of Health reported a 92% decrease in the number of illegal pharmacies nationwide and a 71% fewer unlicensed health clinics over the past year, on December 22, 2010.
[...]EU Regulates Internet Drug Sales
The European Union ambassadors approved an agreement to regulate medicines sold over the internet. The agreement will create regulation intended to protect legal suppliers of medicine.
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