DAMASCUS — A recent seizure of counterfeit drugs and the shutdown of the ring that provided them shows how Syria is stepping up its response to a problem that remains widespread in the Middle East.
Piled up in huge plastic bags, the haul netted millions of dollars worth of breast cancer, leukemia and other medicines, along [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pharmaceuticals'
News: No Cure For Fake Drugs
February 18th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · fake drugs · pharmaceuticals · World Health Organization
News: Officials fear toxic ingredient in Botox could become terrorist tool
January 29th, 2010 No Comments
In early 2006, a mysterious cosmetics trader named Rakhman began showing up at salons in St. Petersburg, Russia, hawking a popular anti-aging drug at suspiciously low prices. He flashed a briefcase filled with vials and promised he could deliver more — “as many as you want,” he told buyers — from a supplier somewhere in [...]
Tags: Al-Qaeda · bioweapons · Botox · counterfeit cosmetics · counterfeit drugs · Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · FDA · Justice Department
News: Kenya: Anti-Counterfeit Law ‘Violates Right to Life and Health
December 23rd, 2009 No Comments
The three petitioners want the Constitutional Court to declare the law, which was enacted in the middle of this year, unconstitutional on the grounds that it will deny them access to affordable life-saving generic medicines and therefore rob them off their right to life, says Peter Munyi, an intellectual property rights lawyer working with Health [...]
Tags: Anti-Counterfeiting Act of 2008 · Counterfeit Goods · Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · fake drugs · HAI Africa · Intellectual Property Rights
News: FDA Issues 22 Warning Letters to Web site Operators
December 22nd, 2009 No Comments
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today completed a coordinated, weeklong, international effort, called the International Internet Week of Action (IIWA), intended to curb illegal actions involving medical products.
During the effort, the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI), in conjunction with the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Office [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · illegal pharmacies · International Internet Week of Action (IIWA) · internet pharmacies · misbranded drugs · U.S. Food and Drug Administration
News: U.S. part of global crackdown on counterfeit medicines
December 2nd, 2009 No Comments
NEW YORK — In highly orchestrated raids across five continents this week, Interpol officers in Europe, drug agents in the United States and task forces from Sweden to Singapore hunted down counterfeit prescription drugs in an effort to stem a rapidly growing criminal business preying on financially pressed consumers looking for bargains.
The operation, code-named Pangea, [...]
Tags: Cialis · Claritin · counterfeit drugs · fake prescription drugs · FDA · intellectual property crimes · internet pharmacies · Interpol · National Association of Boards of Pharmacy · National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center · Operation Apothecary · Pangea · pharmaceuticals · US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Viagra · Vicodin
News: Drug counterfeiters bank on peoples’ fear of flu
November 18th, 2009 No Comments
With the H1N1 flu now on a run around the globe, traffickers in fake influenza medications are exploiting people’s fears by marketing counterfeit Tamiflu, bogus vaccines and would-be cures that contain silver, playing off the belief the precious metal has antiviral powers.
Scam artists swung into action just as the first cases of swine flu emerged [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · fake drugs · FDA · Federal Trade Commission · H1N1 Virus · internet pharmacies · pharmaceuticals · Swine Flu · World Health Organization
News: Criminals cashing in on fake swine flu medicines
November 4th, 2009 No Comments
European medicine authorities are growing increasingly alarmed by the number of bogus swine flu remedies being sold over the Internet. The news comes as MEPs gear up to debate new rules covering counterfeit medicines.
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is warning that criminal gangs are trying to cash in on the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling [...]
Tags: Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · European Medicines Agency (EMEA) · fake drugs · H1N1 Virus · Swine Flu
News: China to rein in fake drug ads in cyber space
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — China will launch a one-year crackdown on fake drug ads on the Internet and sales of fake drugs through postal services, according to a cross-ministerial meeting here Friday.
The campaign will be jointly launched by 13 ministries including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State [...]
Tags: china · fake drug ads · fake drugs · internet pharmacies · Ministry of Health · Ministry of Industry and Information Technology · pharmaceuticals · SFDA
News: US, China to meet next week for trade talks
October 26th, 2009 No Comments
WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said Wednesday they plan to raise a range of trade issues, from copyright piracy to China’s restrictions on U.S. farm products, during two days of high-level talks next week in China.
“It is critical that we make progress on several priority issues, including intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, clean energy, [...]
Tags: china · Copyright Piracy · intellectual property rights protection · U.S.-China trade talks
News: EU firms pilot Swedish scheme to stop fake drugs
October 26th, 2009 No Comments
LONDON – European drugmakers said on Tuesday they were piloting an anti-counterfeit coding system in Sweden in a bid to end the risk of fake medicines entering the supply chain.
Drug companies are increasingly concerned about bogus drugs getting into the legitimate distribution system, potentially posing serious health hazards and undermining the reputation of their products.
The [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · counterfeit drugs · EFPIA · European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations · parallel trade · Supply Chain Management · Sweden
