May 19, 2025: Investigations raise questions about product safety at a Texas compounding company

May 20, 2025

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.

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May 12, 2025: FDA will expand unannounced foreign facility inspections, it says

May 12, 2025

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.

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Prescription Drug Freight Fraud Report, May 2025

May 12, 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.

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graph comparing negative health effects between compounded and manufactured glp-1s

May 4, 2025: New study suggests more adverse events associated with compounded GLP-1s than standard formulations

May 5, 2025

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.

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ALERT: New FDA Warning Letter to www.thesafepills.org

April 29, 2025

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.

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jumbled box of bottles of medicine

April 28, 2025: SafeChain Solutions executive admits to criminal wire fraud in HIV drug diversion case

April 29, 2025

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.

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screenshot from a website selling vials of "research" semaglutide

April 21, 2025: Kentucky doctor pleads guilty after injecting patients with semaglutide from unregistered sources

April 22, 2025

A Kentucky doctor treated weight loss patients with research chemicals; CBP seized 90,000 alprazolam pills being smuggled into the U.S.

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FDA Alert: Counterfeit Ozempic found in U.S. Supply Chain

April 15, 2025

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.

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New initiative: Best practices for online pharmacy-to-pharmacy marketplaces

April 15, 2025

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.

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Boxes showing the lot and serial number of counterfeit Ozempic

April 14, 2025: Regulators announce a third instance of counterfeit Ozempic injections in the U.S. drug supply

April 14, 2025

The FDA announced that it had seized counterfeit Ozempic injections on April 9. PSM testified at a congressional hearing.

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