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About 80 people were arrested and fake drugs worth more than N300,000 were confiscated by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) in Borno State last year. This revelation was made by the state coordinator of the agency, Pharmacist Sabo Adamu while briefing newsmen in his office in Maiduguri. He said the agency is doing everything possible…
Read MoreOne man has died and nine others have been admitted to hospital – one in critical condition – after they were believed to have taken impotence drugs which were fake or contained unregistered medicines. The Department of Health said 10 men have been admitted since December 11. A 53-year-old man died on January 31 in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. By Nickkita…
Read MoreDubai: Counterfeiting remains a growing problem in various economies today because government officials are not motivated enough to wage an all-out war against it. This point was made on Sunday by David Benjamin, co-chair of the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy at the Fourth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Dubai. By Cleofe Maceda 4 February…
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) — China's food and drug watchdog has vowed to intensify crackdown on on-line illegal drug sales to enforce its supervision of Internet-based drug distribution. Shao Mingli, State Food and Drug Administration director, revealed at a national food and drug supervision meeting Thursday that his administration will cooperate with other departments and administrations in striking on-line illegal…
Read MoreEvery day, counterfeit prescription drugs, purses, watches, shoes, software, movies and music come into the U.S. And the problem is getting worse. To combat counterfeiting, more than 400 companies worldwide have created technology systems to authenticate goods, and many of them are small startups, said Ed Dietrich, director of the Americas for Reconnaissance International, based in Hood River, Ore. By…
Read MoreYou should definitely be concerned. If you purchase prescription drugs online, be sure to deal only with a legitimate Web pharmacy. More on this shortly. In its most recent warning on counterfeit drugs, the FDA referred to a network of 24 online sources that appear to be operated from outside the United States. Some consumers ordering from these online sources…
Read MoreGUANGZHOU, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) — A 37-year-old man has died from the effects of a contaminated drug given to patients at a south China hospital almost two years ago, bringing the death toll to 14. The latest victim died on Wednesday afternoon at the No. 3 Zhongshan Hospital in Guangzhou, capital of southern China's Guangdong Province, after medical treatment failed.…
Read MoreThe European Commission is to prioritise and speed up moves to deal with the issue of counterfeit drugs in parallel trade and will launch a legislative initiative on the issue after the summer break, Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen has announced in the European Parliament. At the end of December 2006, the Commission began a two-part study into pharmaceutical distribution…
Read MoreWASHINGTON ― Health and crime agencies of the United Nations say that counterfeit drugs are killing people from China to Canada, and that they “promote the development of new strains of viruses, parasites and bacteria … for example in the case of malaria or HIV." And in many countries their manufacture and distribution are not even illegal. The United Nations…
Read MorePolice have shut down a major designer-drug laboratory that used latex paint to colour its pills and operated out of a dirty commercial space in Repentigny. The lab, which was capable of producing a total of 5 million ecstasy, methamphetamine and counterfeit Viagra and Cialis pills a month, was a danger to public health, if only because of the unsanitary…
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