NBI raids yield P100,000 in fake hypertension drugs

The National Bureau of Investigation recently confiscated alleged imitations of hypertension drugs worth over P100,000 from four different pharmacies in Laguna province. NBI Chief of Intellectual Property Rights Division (IPRD) head agent Jose Justo Yap said the NBI team found some 2,323 pieces of fake hypertension and vasodilator drugs in pharmacies in San Pablo City,…

[...]

DOH intensifies info drive vs. fake drugs

To ensure that the sick will not be conned, the Department of Health continues its drive against counterfeit drugs through active information dissemination. Counterfeit medicines are those that are deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and source and can apply to both branded and generic products. Counterfeit products may include those with the…

[...]

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…

[...]

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…

[...]

RM14 Mln Of Fake Sexual Stimulants Seized

PETALING JAYA, March 22 (Bernama) — The Health Ministry seized 1.4 million capsules of fake sexual stimulants worth RM14 million from a container in Penang recently, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said Wednesday night. He said the seizure, the biggest so far by the ministry's pharmaceutical enforcement division, was made on March…

[...]

TV watchdog finds fake Viagra pills containing flour and mould

Beijing. March 19. INTERFAX-CHINA – A fake and unapproved health care products ring has been discovered, selling into 17 cities and provinces via the logistic transportation hub of Dafeng city, Jiangsu province, local media reported. Among the cornucopia of fake cures made by the firm it was found it was producing a Viagra-like pill containing…

[...]

Fake, banned drugs rampant, admits Vietnam government

A slew of fake and unlicensed medicines were found at hospitals and health centers nationwide last year, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health admitted at a conference last week. In a report at the meeting held in Hanoi, it said dozens of categories of drugs had been faked, mostly in the northern provinces. The most widely…

[...]

China to tighten drug safety checks

China will tighten the inspection of pharmaceutical products to prevent drug safety accidents, the country's drug watchdog said Tuesday, disclosing that the licenses of 353 medicines have been revoked since August 2006. Wu Zhen, deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), said about 3,049 applications for producing new drugs were turned down…

[...]

WHO worried about fake drugs in Indonesia

The World Health Organisation says pharmaceutical markets across Southeast Asia are becoming increasingly inundated with fake drugs, some of which are being used to treat life threatening illnesses. It's estimated that 25 per cent of the drugs on sale in Indonesia may be counterfeits. Katie Hamann reports from Jakarta that police in the Indonesia capital…

[...]

Police break up fake drug ring

JAKARTA: Central Jakarta Police have arrested 11 people suspected of producing and distributing counterfeit drugs. Police said Tuesday the suspects produced and packaged counterfeit over-the-counter medicines in Pasar Pramuka market, Cempaka Putih district, to be sold to small health clinics in several regions. 22 February 2007 Read the full story at thejakartapost.com.

[...]