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State Duma Targets Counterfeit Drugs
The State Duma will examine plans to stiffen penalties for manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit pharmaceuticals Friday, one of the sponsors of the proposed bill said Thursday. "It will be the first reading of a bill to create a new statute in the legal code covering the manufacture, intent to supply, supply, storage, transportation and…
[...]KAOHSIUNG CUSTOMS OFFICE UNCOVERS VIAGRA-SMUGGLING
Taipei, April 23 (CNA) The Kaohsiung Customs Office (KCO) under the Ministry of Finance uncovered smuggled counterfeit Viagra and sleeping drugs in a container imported from China Monday, a Customs officer said. Also found in the same container were 194 China-made granite urns that are under import controls, the officer said. By Ruth Wang23 April…
[...]FDA Warns Of HIV Drug Mix-Up
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that bottles of HIV drug Ziagen may have been mislabeled as Combivir, another HIV drug. The FDA and GlaxoSmithKline, which makes both drugs, said it appears the bottles were tampered with by a third party that used counterfeit labels to mislead readers about the contents, WebMD reported…
[...]Isolated Case of Counterfeit Combivir on the Market
GlaxoSmithKline is informing health care professionals of an incident of misbranding of Ziagen (abacavir sulfate) as Combivir (lamivudine/zidovudine). Apparently, counterfeit Combivir labels were used by a third party. Two 60-count misbranded bottles of Combivir tablets (lot number 6ZP9760 with the expiration dates April 2009 and April 2010) contained Ziagen 300 mg tablets. The warning letter…
[...]EU Parliament told of rising counterfeit drug problem
The fight against counterfeit medicines has now become the new global war on drugs, leading experts have told MEPs. The counterfeit medicines market has emerged as a multi-billion euro business with profit margins rivalling those of hard drug trafficking, according to the latest WHO estimates. Around ten percent of medicines traded worldwide are substandard fakes,…
[...]Price, quality checks initiated on Ho Chi Minh City medicines
Vietnamese health inspectors, market regulators, customs officials and police began joint inspections Monday on pharmaceuticals in Ho Chi Minh City to eliminate fake drugs and arbitrary price hikes. The inspections are expected to last for the next 10 days, focusing on price quotations and invoices. Enterprises will be punished severely if found without proper invoicing…
[...]Nigeria: NAFDAC Impounds N10m Fake Drugs in Lagos
National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), yesterday announced the seizure of six consignments of fake pharmaceutical products valued at N10 million imported through Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja. Addressing newsmen yesterday in Lagos at NAFDAC Office, Oshodi, NAFDAC Director of Inspectorate, Mrs. Chinyere Ukaegbu, said the fake drugs included Visine Eye…
[...]It Is Estimated That About 97 Percent of the Drugs Produced by China’s Local Companies Are Generics or Counterfeits States New Report ‘China’s Guidebook for Pharmaceutical Patent Protection’
DUBLIN, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c53217) has announced the addition of China's Guidebook for Pharmaceutical Patent Protection to their offering. China's Guidebook for Pharmaceutical Patent Protection is an essential resource for overseas and multinational pharmaceutical companies to achieve successful patent protection for their intellectual property in China. The guidebook includes case studies of patent infringement…
[...]Upper East CEPS destroys contraband goods
The Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) in the Upper East Region on Thursday, burnt a quantity of confiscated goods estimated at about 112 million Cedis. The items, which included assorted foreign cigarettes, fake and expired pharmaceutical drugs, mosquito coils and Chinese herbal tea, were seized at various entry points in the Region by CEPS…
[...]Dutch Inspectorate warns against purchasing pharmaceuticals via internet
De Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg heeft vandaag aan diverse advertentie-sites, zoals speurders.nl en snuffelcorner.nl, gevraagd een waarschuwing te plaatsen, waarin de inspectie het publiek waarschuwt voor de aankoop van geneesmiddelen via internet. In de waarschuwing stelt de inspectie dat alleen geregistreerde geneesmiddelen gekocht en gebruikt mogen worden. Geneesmiddelen die zijn geregistreerd, zijn getoetst op kwaliteit,…
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