Articles from March 2008
1 März 2008
FDA gets green light to post inspectors in China The US State Department has given its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permission to place eight
FDA gets green light to post inspectors in China The US State Department has given its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permission to place eight
Warning over medicine bought online Seizures of illegal medicines coming into Ireland have increased four fold, according to the Irish Medicines Board. The Board’s Chief
China launches national campaign against online illegal drugs China’s State Food and Drug Administration is to intensify its crackdown on online illegal drug sales, in
A plague of bad medicine There is a silent killer on the loose and it is growing into a global epidemic – counterfeit medicines. Unlike
BMA warns of the dangers of buying drugs on the internet A warning to patients about the dangers of buying prescription drugs via the internet
How effective is the MHRA? Jim Thomson, EAASM Chair, asks whether UK patients are safe from counterfeit medicines, when the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Laser technology can detect fake medicines British scientists have developed a laser that can detect counterfeit drugs by picking up the characteristic light signature of
Woman dies from fake sleeping pills Late last year, a 57-year old American woman ordered a package of sleeping pills from an online pharmacy based
Fake medicines being sold in Indonesia Police in central Jakarta, Indonesia conducted surveillance and a test purchase of prescription and non-prescription medicines being sold over
Plavix®: Class 1 medicines recall The MHRA in conjunction with the EMEA, with assistance from Waymade plc, are recalling parallel distributed stock of batches 3103/1