Submitted by GAtherton on 7 July 2015
Sales of fake drugs are a major problem for us all as fake drugs are expensive & useless and can be dangerous.
The haul was part of a month-long international crackdown on the illegal internet trade of medical products that yielded £51.6m worth of items from 115 different countries. ‘Operation Pangea’ – coordinated through INTERPOL – led to 156 arrests worldwide.
In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seized more than six million doses of illegally supplied medicines in a week of raids, along with slimming pills and fake condoms.
The operation also targeted websites that were offering falsified, counterfeit and unlicensed medicines and led to the closure or suspension of 1,380 sites.
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