Monday, December 19, 2005
Bird Flu concerns open a market for Fraud in the US
If you have email, you get the pharma spam for Viagra and other dubiously available drugs. Now, the Bird Flu has opend the gateways for Tamiflu Fakes:
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- FRANCISCO - Customs agents have intercepted more than 50 shipments of counterfeit Tamiflu, the antiviral drug being stockpiled in anticipation of a bird flu pandemic, marking the first such seizures in the United States, authorities said yesterday.
The first package was intercepted Nov. 26 at an air mail facility near San Francisco International Airport, said Roxanne Hercules, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Since then, agents have seized 51 packages, each containing up to 50 counterfeit capsules labeled generic Tamiflu.
The fake drugs had none of Tamiflu's active ingredients, and officials were running tests to determine what the capsules did contain. Initial tests indicated some Vitamin C in the capsules, said David Elder, director of the Food and Drug Administration Office of Enforcement.
Information on the packages was written in Chinese, but it is unclear where the drugs originated, Elder said.[ed. duh! just say it]
They were sent by Asian suppliers to individuals who placed orders over the Internet, Hercules said. She said none of the shipments intercepted was bound for doctors or hospitals.
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