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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning U.S. consumers about dangers associated with buying prescription drugs over the Internet. This alert is being issued based on information the agency received showing that 24 apparently related Web sites may be involved in the distribution of counterfeit prescription drugs.On three occasions during recent months, FDA received information that counterfeit versions of Xenical 120 mg capsules, a drug manufactured by Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Roche), were obtained by three consumers from two different Web sites. Xenical is an FDA-approved drug used to help obese individuals who meet certain weight and height requirements lose weight and maintain weight loss.
None of the capsules ordered off the Web sites contained orlistat, the active ingredient in authentic Xenical. In fact, laboratory analysis conducted by Roche and submitted to the FDA confirmed that one capsule contained sibutramine, which is the active ingredient in Meridia, an FDA-approved prescription drug manufactured by Abbott Laboratories.
While this product is also used to help people lose weight and maintain that loss, it should not be used in certain patient populations and therefore is not a substitute for other weight loss products. In addition the drug interactions profile is different between Xenical and sibutramine, as is the dosing frequency; sibutramine is administered once daily while Xenical is dosed three times a day.
Other samples of drug product obtained from two of the Internet orders were composed of only talc and starch. According to Roche, these two samples displayed a valid Roche lot number of B2306 and were labeled with an expiration date of April 2007. The correct expiration date for this lot number is actually March 2005. Pictures of the counterfeit Xenical capsules provided by Roche can be viewed at http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/photos/xenical.html.
Roche identified the two Web sites involved in this incident as brandpills.com and pillspharm.com. Further investigation by FDA disclosed that these Web sites are two of 24 Web sites that appear on the pharmacycall365.com home page under the "Our Websites" heading. Four of these Web sites previously have been identified by FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations as being associated with the distribution of counterfeit Tamiflu and counterfeit Cialis.
At this point, it appears that these Web sites are operated from outside of the United States. Consumers should be wary, if there is no way to contact the Web site pharmacy by phone, if prices are dramatically lower than the competition, or if no prescription from your doctor is required. As a result, FDA strongly cautions consumers about purchasing drugs from any of these Web sites which may be involved in the distribution of counterfeit drugs and reiterates previous public warnings about buying prescription drugs online. Consumers are urged to review the FDA Web page at www.fda.gov/buyonline/ for additional information prior to making purchases of prescription drugs over the Internet.
The 24 Web sites appear on pharmacycall365.com.
AllPills.net
Pharmacy-4U.net
DirectMedsMall.com
Brandpills.com
Emediline.com
RX-ed.com
RXePharm.com
Pharmacea.org
PillsPharm.com
MensHealthDrugs.net
BigXplus.net
MediClub.md
InterTab.de
Pillenpharm.com
Bigger-X.com
PillsLand.com
EZMEDZ.com
UnitedMedicals.com
Best-Medz.com
USAPillsrx.net
USAMedz.com
BluePills-Rx.com
Genericpharmacy.us
I-Kusuri.jphttp://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01623.html
More good info about counterfeit drugs: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs275/en/
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MoreThis is a reply to # 930,135Makes ya wonder how much of this is actually true. Since the F.D.A. basically merged with Big Pharma recently I'm sure that they're pushing hard for them to get all the business (or Big Pharma is aggressively pushing the F.D.A.)
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This is a reply to # 930,414
I think it's true, Dateline NBC has been following it since last year
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By Chris HansenCorrespondentNBC NewsUpdated: 5:50 p.m. PT June 9, 2006Update: Less than a week after Dateline’s broadcast about counterfeit medicines, the FDA has announced new rules to require prescription medicines to be tracked every time they change hands from the factory to the pharmacy. The new rules are scheduled to take effect in December 2006. Click here for more details. Below is Chris Hansen's Dateline Hidden Camera Investigation which aired Sunday, June 4, 7 p.m.• June 9, 2006 | 8:14 p.m. ET
Finally, a solution? (Steve Eckert, Dateline producer)
It’s been a long time coming.
But today the Food and Drug Administration finally acted to implement a law Congress passed 18-years ago — a law designed to protect the safety of your prescription medicines.
Last Sunday, Dateline showed how loopholes in the law were allowing counterfeit medicines to sneak into the mainstream medicine supply. We even showed cases where the bogus drugs were reaching the shelves of trusted local pharmacies.
The problem should have been fixed two decades ago. There was a scandal over counterfeit birth control pills. Congress passed a new law to require medicines to have records — so-called pedigrees — to assure they were genuine. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill. But for the next 18 years some of the rules to implement the law were never finalized.
And experts told us the resulting loopholes left the door open to counterfeits.
Thanks in part to your strong reaction to the Dateline broadcast, the FDA today announced new rules, effective in December. They’ll require medicines to be tracked every time they change hands from the factory all the way to the pharmacy.
Slamming the door, we hope, on the counterfeiters.
For more information, check the FDA Web site. Click here to read and watch the Dateline report.
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This is a reply to # 930,414I agree, I saw that and it smelled fishy. Some intuition that it was all a bunch of BS.
I believe it's to scare people away from getting those discount drugs from other countries.
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This is a reply to # 930,943In the hidden camera, Emmy-winning investigation "Bitter Pills," Chris Hansen travels to China and goes undercover to report on the international counterfeit prescription drug trade. Dateline's cameras reveal the secrets of the counterfeit drug business and how they ship regularly to the United States. In addition to interviews with industry and government officials about the issue, Hansen also talks with a family who unknowingly purchased counterfeit medications at their local drug store. In addition to a national Emmy, Dateline's "Bitter Pills" earned the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award as the best investigative report on network television last year.
• A dose of reality
June 4: As more prescription drugs are being sold on the Internet, a new problem has emerged: counterfeit medications. And now, those fake prescription drugs are popping up at drug stores. Chris Hansen has a Dateline Hidden Camera Investigation.
• Undercover in the fake drug market
Dateline wanted to find out — where are the bogus drugs coming from? We went undercover, posing as businessmen interested in buying and selling phony drugs.
• Meeting a potential counterfeiter
March 26: While undercover, Dateline met Cherry Wong, who says she is the chief salesperson for one of the biggest counterfeit pharmaceutical operations in the country.
• Counterfeit drug based in the U.S.?
June 4: Dateline tries to find out more about "Dr. Lou," the Chinese-American research scientist the potential counterfeit drug contact Cherry Wong claims is her “big boss.”
• A possible solution?
June 4: How do you stop the fakes from threatening America’s medicine supply? Some think there’s a solution that could be adopted by legitimate drug distributors.
• Should you be worried?
June 4: Are you at risk? And is the government doing enough to protect America's drug supply? Watch the conclusion to Dateline's undercover report on the counterfeit drug market.
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