Bangkok Police Bear Down on Drug Counterfeiters

January 4, 2011

Bangkok police are focusing on deadly counterfeit items, like fake drugs, in 2011.

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Albuterol Sulfate Recall

January 3, 2011

This is a reprint of the FDA Alert. December 30, 2010 – The Ritedose Corporation is conducting a voluntary recall of 0.083% Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Solution, 3 mL (in 25, 30, and 60 unit dose vials). This product is a prescription inhalation solution, administered via nebulization, for the treatment and maintenance of acute asthma exacerbations…

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Recall of Authentic Formula Fruta Planta

January 3, 2011

This is a reprint of the FDA alert. PRock Marketing, LLC located in Central Florida an authorized US distributor of the Authentic Formula Fruta Planta has been informed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the weight loss dietary supplements sold and marketed contains an undeclared drug ingredient. The FDA lab analysist of the…

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Madras High Court Upholds Spurious Drug Sellers Detention

December 30, 2010

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…

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Drug Thieves Thwarted by Tracking Devices

December 30, 2010

Armed robbers who stole three delivery trucks filled with pharmaceuticals were thwarted by tracking devices embedded within the cargo.

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Morocco Raises Fake Drug lnspections

December 29, 2010

Moroccan health officials are working with the fraud prevention departments within the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Internal Affairs to increase drug store inspections. The Health Minister, Yasmina Baddou, told parliament on November 24th that the inter-ministry cooperation will try to stop drugs being sold outside the legal market and to raise public awareness…

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Hong Kong Customs Shames Counterfeiters

December 28, 2010

The Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department has promised to crack down on fake drug sellers and publicly publish the name of pharmacies and retails who are caught with them. Thomas Lin Shun-yin, head of investigations for the Department of Intellectual Property said that while the number of raw number of fake drugs seized in…

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NAFDAC Finds Stores of Fake Antibiotics and Others

December 27, 2010

  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…

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Mobile Phone Tech Goes Global

December 27, 2010

Mobile phone based anti-counterfeiting technology initiatives have been announced in Ghana, Nigeria and India.

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Phnom Penh Reports Illegal Pharmacy Crackdown

December 24, 2010

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.

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