- Hello Jeff - I believe this is just a publicity move
by the Chinese government to try to demonstrate to the world that it is
tough on counterfeit drugs. We all know that this is just the tip of
the iceberg and I would need to see a lot more being done by China before
I would be secure about Chinese imports.
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- The fake drugs also included bird flu and malaria medications.
We need to stop importing Chinese poisons and fake drugs and shoddy products,
period.
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- Frankly, I am not impressed by China's response and feel
they will be back to business as usual as soon.
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- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK238930.htm
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- China Seizes 18,000 Fake Viagra Pills In Raids
- 7-25-7
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- BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese
police have seized more than a tonne of fake drugs for impotence, bird
flu and malaria, including at least 18,000 fake Viagra tablets, state media
reported on Wednesday.
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- The Ministry of Public Security, which launched the national
crackdown on counterfeit goods in 2005, announced 10 of its top cases ranging
from fake drugs to fake toothpaste on Tuesday, the Xinhua news agency said
on its Web site.
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- More than 30 people were detained on suspicion of either
making or selling the drugs.
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- Police in the eastern province of Zhejiang raided a gang
making counterfeit Viagra and selling the tablets to 12 countries, including
the United States and Holland, it said, adding that a total of 18,000 pills
were seized.
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- In Guangdong, police had arrested 12 people and seized
1 tonne of fake drugs and two production lines and large quantities of
raw materials for making "sildenafil citrate", the scientific
name of Viagra.
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- Police detained 19 suspects and shut down six factories
in May last year for making fake Tamiflu, a bird flu drug, and selling
it to the United States via the Internet, the agency said.
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- In April last year, police cracked a ring making and
selling pirated toothpaste across the country and arrested five suspects,
it said.
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- Chinese media report on scandals involving substandard
or fake drug and food almost every day, and the issue burst into the international
spotlight when tainted additives exported from China contaminated pet food
in North America.
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- Public fears about food safety grew in China in 2004
when at least 13 babies died of malnutrition after they were fed fake mild
power with no nutritional value.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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