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The trade in counterfeits
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Written by Olivia Andrzejczak
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Monday, 09 March 2009 00:00 |
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Counterfeit drugs have typically been thought to emanate from among a number of developing countries, including China and India, whose abundance of unregulated manufacturers are blamed for the subversive infiltration of established supply chains.
In recent years, however, some very well regulated industries have been implicated in counterfeit drug seizures in Europe. Many were shocked when, in 2007, Switzerland was found to account for 40% of all counterfeits halted by European customs authorities. The Swiss – who boast two of the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the world – had apparently made five shipments of morphine-based painkillers (totaling 1.6 million pills), which were seized and identified as counterfeits by German customs between March and May 2007. While it was not clear that the pills were manufactured in Switzerland, that they were shipped from the country was cause for alarm.
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Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 13:18 |
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Read more... [Faked in Switzerland]
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The trade in counterfeits
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Written by Andrew Schmid
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Sunday, 08 March 2009 15:36 |
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The BBC reported last week that an investigation into the UK-based Web site Pharma2u.com by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) resulted in an elderly couple being arrested and over $350,000 in counterfeit, unlicensed and withdrawn prescription drugs being seized.
The haul, MHRA Head of Operations Danny Lee-Frost told the BBC, was only the "tip of the iceberg" of an expected multi-million-pound illegal online pharmaceutical business.
"The dangers of purchasing medicines online are that you just don't know what you are taking," he said.
The Mirror.co.uk also reported that the series of pre-dawn raids netted "a 'significant haul' of illicit drugs, including bogus Viagra and Prozac."
Currently, the watchdog group LegitScript has more than 34,000 “rogue” pharmacies in its database. These are online pharmacies from all over the world that LegitScript does not consider to be legitimate.
According to its blog, LegitScript had designated Pharma2u.com as “as a rogue several months ago, based on that fact that it did not require a valid prescription, and offered to import prescription-only drugs into the United States in violation of federal law.”
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Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 13:19 |
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Online - IPs, spam, and affiliates
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Written by Erin Siegal
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Saturday, 07 March 2009 00:00 |
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A recent post on Jonathan Richman's blog Dose of Digital opens with a snappy confrontation. The post, "How to Avoid FDA Regulations Using Mobile Marketing," begins:
Based on my title, you're reading this for one of three reasons:
You sincerely are looking to skirt DDMAC rules and need some inspiration;
You follow the rules, but want to see what you're missing;
You are the FDA and want my address.
OK. Well, to lay the groundwork here, "DDMAC" stands for the FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications.
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Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 13:16 |
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Read more... [Tips from the Geekery: How drug sellers can outwit the FDA]
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Odds and ends
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Written by Catalina Lobo-Guerrero
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 23:18 |
Wide disparities in enforcement and regulations have encouraged the worldwide proliferation of rogue online pharmacies.
In the late 1990s, the International Narcotics Control Board, the independent and quasi-judicial body that oversees the implementation of international drug control treaties, expressed concern about the spread of illegal online pharmacies across the globe.
But it wasn´t until 2004 that the Board decided to investigate how countries around the world were cracking down on online pharma. They designed a survey in 2005 and requested governments to describe the operations of rogue online pharmacies in their countries and to list the rules and regulations they had in place to rein them in.
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Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 13:20 |
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Read more... [Finally, UN tells members to work together to crack down on illegal online pharma]
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