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BEIJING – Chinese police have arrested 15 members of a crime ring that made and sold fake medicines, a Chinese newspaper said on Monday amid a domestic and global confidence crisis about the country's food and drug safety. Police in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang seized more than 30,000 phials of fake vaccination medicine, including rabies vaccines and a plasma-based…
Read MoreInternet advertisements for prescription drugs sold at prices lower than those at your local pharmacy are certainly tempting. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to warn all Americans that succumbing to that temptation could have serious consequences. A recent FDA alert cautions American to beware of counterfeit drugs sold on 24 related Web sites and illustrates the potential…
Read MoreBEIJING — China announced Wednesday that its State Council passed a draft regulation to strengthen food safety in the wake of discoveries of toxic chemicals that prompted international bans and recalls on its exports. China, which has been working to convince the world it is serious about cracking down on dangerous and phony drugs and food, also announced that it…
Read MoreUNLICENSED drug dealers are flooding the market with a variety of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that could do more harm than good, the country's medicines regulatory body has warned. The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said this week that individual drug importers had flooded the local market with ARVs, which they are selling from unlicensed locations such as flea markets…
Read MoreBhubaneswar : The Orissa government suspended a drugs inspector and arrested five persons for their alleged role in a fake drugs racket that was unearthed recently, officials said Wednesday. "T.V. Rao, a drugs inspector posted at the district headquarter of Bolangir has been suspended for his alleged role in the circulation of fake medicines," a state health department official told…
Read MoreThe Jakarta Police have confiscated more than 160,000 medicines that lacked distribution permits and arrested two people for allegedly distributing the drugs. Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said they suspected the drugs were substandard because they were not accompanied by the appropriate documentation from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency on their boxes. The medicines were mainly…
Read MoreBEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police have seized more than a tonne of fake drugs for impotence, bird flu and malaria, including at least 18,000 fake Viagra tablets, state media reported on Wednesday. The Ministry of Public Security, which launched the national crackdown on counterfeit goods in 2005, announced 10 of its top cases ranging from fake drugs to fake toothpaste…
Read MoreThe Jakarta Police have confiscated more than 160,000 medicines that lacked distribution permits and arrested two people for allegedly distributing the drugs. Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said they suspected the drugs were substandard because they were not accompanied by the appropriate documentation from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency on their boxes. The medicines were mainly…
Read MoreA B.C. woman is fatally poisoned by counterfeit anxiety pills she ordered over the Internet, four Ontario patients die after apparently consuming fake — and ineffective — heart drugs, while Quebec vendors are spotted selling knock-off Viagra at a flea market. The peddling of bogus pharmaceuticals is becoming such a worrisome problem that Health Canada has begun drafting a new…
Read MoreBALANGIR: The raids and subsequent arrest of Shankar Agrawala, the alleged kingpin and owner of the fake medicine factory in Kantabanji, have only revealed part of a vicious network. On a tip-off, Balangir and Kantabanji police raided the medicine manufacturing unit on Friay and found fake medicines worth over Rs one crore. Balangir SP Himansu Lal said raids were continuing…
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