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Drugs valued at over Ksh. 5 million have been destroyed by pharmacy and poisons board of Kenya in conjunction with GlaxoSmithkline at the Kenya medical research institute KEMRI. A consignment of the counterfeit Panadol Extra tablets was seized from the local market in an operation carried out by the ministry of health and the police.…

European Union customs agents seized more than 34 million illegal pills and tablets in the 27-country bloc's first coordinated campaign against illegal medicines, the EU's executive Commission said on Tuesday. Starting in mid-October, customs officials across the EU joined forces to intercept illegal and counterfeit products like antibiotics, anti-cancer, anti-malaria and anti-cholesterol medicines, various painkillers…

BEIJING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) — China's drug safety watchdog has blacklisted 23 websites, which were found to have been selling fake drugs or to have published illegal adverts that exaggerated the benefits of their products. The websites, some of which claimed to be sponsored by research institutions of renowned universities, were identified by the State…

The chairperson of the National Drug Authority (NDA) Dr. Frank Mwesigye has said that the institution will continue to fight counterfeit drugs on the market to ensure safety and to avoid exploitation of the people. The NDA is a government body charged with regulating drug use and manufacture in the country. 19 November 2008 Read…

BEIJING — Under fire for not having the resources to better protect consumers at home, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is deploying staff members abroad to work directly with importers and foreign regulatory agencies to guard against contaminated animal feed, counterfeit drugs, toys made with lead paint and dairy products containing melamine. By Maureen…

Websites fueling prescription drug abuse, selling non-FDA approved drugs taken offline LegitScript, an online pharmacy certification program, announced today that it has succeeded in getting nearly 500 "rogue" Internet pharmacy websites shut down. The sites had been selling prescription drugs or steroids without requiring a prescription, a practice that is illegal and considered unsafe by…

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — Interpol seized more than $6.65 million of counterfeit medicines against malaria, HIV and tuberculosis in Southeast Asia and made 27 arrests, disrupting the region's fake drug trade for the second time in three years. The haul, part of a five-month investigation called Operation Storm across Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand…

Purchasing prescription medications via the Internet, newspaper advertisements or from any source other than licensed pharmacies is dangerous, according to the Health Ministry, which together with the Israel Police has seized thousands of pills suspected of being counterfeit. The effort by the police and the ministry's unit against pharmaceutical crime was part of an international…

LONDON (Reuters) – Authorities in nine countries have raided businesses suspected of supplying medicines illegally over the Internet in an unprecedented global swoop coordinated by Interpol, officials said on Thursday. The operation, codenamed Pangea, involved dozens of locations in Britain, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. By Ben Hirschler13…

THE Government has launched a medical drugs task force aimed at checking the proliferation of counterfeit drugs in order to safeguard people's health. Health Permanent Secretary, Simon Miti has also challenged the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority (PRA), Police Service and the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to make use of the new task force and ensure that…